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Matt, Why do you think so? This isn't obvious to me.

• nitrogen 15y ago
  I can't speak for Matt, but the argument I would use is that the current politicians are largely from the generations that preceded the technological revolution. Given another generation (~25 years), more of the Internet generation will be in control. It speaks to a larger problem with the American political system, in my opinion, which is that the decisions that affect the next two or three generations are being made by people who came of age two or three generations ago, giving the status quo an undesirable inertia.
• yellowbkpk 15y ago
  If I said "I need to change my spark plugs." to you today, would you understand what I mean? If I said it to your ancestors in 1911, would they understand what I mean? Over time, the median understanding across the majority of the world of any particular technology goes up as more people get exposed to it and its intricacies. As I understand it, Matt is saying that a larger majority of the world will understand the details behind the internet and its vulnerabilities, thus making it easier to communicate why the issues are important.