I'm with you pal but the underlying problem is a decline in ethics as technology development as more intimately paralleled the neoliberal expansion. In 60 some-

I'm with you pal but the underlying problem is a decline in ethics as technology development as more intimately paralleled the neoliberal expansion. In 60 some-odd years we've gone from the government giving money to institutions and inventors to create novel technologies to privatizing most parts of the development of our technical infrastructure. Now instead of SRI, Xerox PARC, University of Utah (Sutherland), many others we have concentrated capital and what are effectively oligarchic trusts at the core of our development strategy. This happens as ethics is withered down bit-by-bit through the efforts of groups like the Heritage Foundation + other, "libertarian" special interest groups, the unresolved social conflicts that created poor-whites out of Reconstruction, and the disdain the superstitious Christian right has had for popular culture since even before the post-war turn. Computer ethics will not improve en-masse in the United States in years to come. We will get more privatization of the public good. We will get more protections for the monopolists. Social media manipulation and mass surveillance are just the beginning. "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Palantir."