We could have secure computers, if we adopted capability based security en masse, but that's highly unlikely. I don't see us all running Genode or Hurd any time

We could have secure computers, if we adopted capability based security en masse, but that's highly unlikely. I don't see us all running Genode or Hurd any time soon. Because we, and the public, don't have secure computers, we're always under threat from any code we run, and any sites we use. This leads us inevitably to walled gardens, where we effectively outsource our security concerns. This has horrible consequences for Democracy, but we put up with them. Until we fix the root issue, faster connectivity will just mean more content "consumed" by the public, and power concentrated into fewer and fewer hands. --- On the plus side, if we all had our own secure servers, we could all have a Memex, as envisioned almost 80 years ago. We'd have our own copies of everything, and be able to spool them off for anyone as an act of sharing. We'd all have our own Library of Alexandria. Of course, that doesn't sit well with the rentier class, so it's unlikely as well. 8(