Right now cybersecurity is a lost cause. That is because of a combination of culture (people) and technology, which are, together, highly antagonistic to secur

Right now cybersecurity is a lost cause. That is because of a combination of culture (people) and technology, which are, together, highly antagonistic to secure systems. We can change one or the other. A non-cynical take would be that people can change. A cynical knee-jerk response is to say something about immutable human nature. That's an entrenched approach. There was a time between the invention of computers and today's widespread surveillance and cybercrime when these problems didn't exist. A possibility once is a possibility again. The fact that something has happened is proof that it can happen. The question then is, what are the changes in the world that would remove the motivation to cybercrime? In such conditions you would not even need encryption or passwords. At the other end of the spectrum, we can make technology that is impervious to hacking or snooping. Such technology would be so complex and inconvenient less than 0.1% of the people would use it. Maybe that's a good thing? Again, that happened once, so it remains a possibility. Those trying to do that intend to make tech so opaque, abd outside our control it will have no utility. The only way to sell it is to make it compulsory, which I call "consumer communism". So no, I don't think the misery of current tech is inevitable in all conceivable future tech, but I think most of us here would not accept, or recognise the kind of world where things improve. We want everyone having everything, everywhere, all at once, for zero cost. That's the madness.