FTA "I think the best strategy is to try to legislate sensible safeguards but work very hard to make sure the edge we get from technology on the good side is stronger than the edge that bad actors get."
Let's see...
- unauthorized access to computers (hacking) is illegal is most countries
- hackers often use malware as one of their tools
- anti-malware products are woefully inefficient at thwarting or even detecting most malware.
This is just one example, but I think the author's approach is ignorant at best.
In the West, we often view systemic problems as something external that we can fix with technology. This view was popularized in the Age of Enlightenment and runs very popular today.
The contrasting view-point is that systemic problems are internal (i.e. in the character of every human). For example, we have the technology and resources to end much of the world's hunger, but it does not happen because of greed and/or power that would be disrupted by all these hungry people suddenly not being hungry.
Systemic societal problems are both internal and external, but if we only talk about fixing external problems, we doom ourselves to (insert dystopian future here).
Let's see... - unauthorized access to computers (hacking) is illegal is most countries - hackers often use malware as one of their tools - anti-malware products are woefully inefficient at thwarting or even detecting most malware.
This is just one example, but I think the author's approach is ignorant at best.
In the West, we often view systemic problems as something external that we can fix with technology. This view was popularized in the Age of Enlightenment and runs very popular today.
The contrasting view-point is that systemic problems are internal (i.e. in the character of every human). For example, we have the technology and resources to end much of the world's hunger, but it does not happen because of greed and/or power that would be disrupted by all these hungry people suddenly not being hungry.
Systemic societal problems are both internal and external, but if we only talk about fixing external problems, we doom ourselves to (insert dystopian future here).