This is addressed in the article - its a core point. Everything you described is the friction which societies will endure to stop these threats. This friction

This is addressed in the article - its a core point. Everything you described is the friction which societies will endure to stop these threats. This friction will slow down our global economy, and break the world we have known entirely. Which is why the article ends on: > The future will be more like the past. > As the scale of effective communication, transportation, maintenance, and influence recedes, society will become more human and more personal, with weaker and multifarious institutions. > The collapsing institutional monopoly on violence will yield a renewal of local and personal violence, and a very messy working-out of a hierarchy suited to the new conditions. > Anyway, it’s a great time to make friends. I will say, that over time we have found ways to beat even the most distributed of systems. Napster and piracy come to mind.