>We can't look to history for guidance. Sure we can. When's the last time a defective toaster took down a major power grid? Never. Because we don't place all

>We can't look to history for guidance. Sure we can. When's the last time a defective toaster took down a major power grid? Never. Because we don't place all of our trust in every appliance plugged in everywhere. We haven't done anything like that in more than a century. Equivalent mechanisms exist for computing. They can be made equally easy to use. We simply lack the will to upgrade everything and are willing to band-aid everything forever instead.