I think Cory has done a great job picking apart the problems with governance and incentives, but there is another side to this... the insecurity of general purp

I think Cory has done a great job picking apart the problems with governance and incentives, but there is another side to this... the insecurity of general purpose computing. We can't run random code from the internet, because we can't control its side effects when we run it. This leads to avoiding novelty in general. This leads to going only to "safe" sites, and only looking at "safe" types of content, from "safe" channels. It doesn't help that the anti-virus systems we're forced to run (because of our insecure computers) flag any novel executables as "dangerous" merely because their signature hasn't previously been present in a statistically large enough sample of users. As for the "access" part of internet connectivity, which was originally intended to be symmetric, we collectively don't care because there aren't any trustworthy operating systems that can withstand direct connection to the internet without the full time attention of system maintainers. You can't turn a box on with a public IP and expect it to survive a decade without updates. (Unlike the wiring in my house, transformer on the pole, and everything else in the power grid) Once we get Genode, Fuchsia, GNU Hurd, or some other capabilities based OS for our machines, we can reverse at least the "safety" part of the problem.