Beyond the War on General Purpose Computing: What's Inside the Box?

Beyond the War on General Purpose Computing: What's Inside the Box?

Assuming the failure of all the calls to regulate PCs and the Internet because people might do bad things with them, what then? Civil war, that's what. The su/user split we inherited from multiuser systems has given us a false intuition: that owners of computers, and not their users, should set policy on them. How will that play out when your car, house, legs, ears and heart are driven by computers that you don't own?

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