Too many issues and too many sides. Too much grey within each debate, too. Computing appliances vs. general purpose machines. End-user control vs. vendor. P

Too many issues and too many sides. Too much grey within each debate, too. Computing appliances vs. general purpose machines. End-user control vs. vendor. Privacy vs. transparency. Freedom of expression vs. curated/"safer" experiences. Algorithms vs. humans in the loop. Governmental vs. corporatist vs. end-user freedoms. Cloud/timeshare/virtualization vs. on-premises/own your own machine/etc. Perpetual copyright and central ownership of culture vs. information wants to be free. Security vs. flexibility. Not to mention after you get past the whole ideological debates, you have active state vs. state cyberwarfare and information warfare and other proxy battles... and cybercrime. Computing and networking as mass-market phenomena is still new. As much as we pat ourselves on the back in tech for rapid progress, the social mechanisms and business models for all of this are still unstable.