tangeli

A ‘golden age’ sounds good. Imagine how nice the White House would look if the outside was all gilded in 24 karat gold - shiny! The lights would really sparkle!

And if all else fails, 100% tariffs on an any country that dares to do competing research, with escalation to kidnapping or killing their leaders or bombing them if they don’t slow down quickly enough. That should bring the US back to the fore.

You’re already considering it, so the trivial answer is: yes.

The harder questions are: what do you mean by living? What do other people mean or understand by living? How does any particular definition of living help someone understand, communicate about and predict events?

The biggest threats I am concerned with are: * my liability and harm to my reputation resulting from unauthorized abuse of my systems * consumption of my limited Internet access bandwidth and capacity * corruption or loss of my systems and data * theft and sale or other abuse of my private data

The first results mostly from the risk of my systems being incorporated into bot nets.

The second from bot nets and abusive crawlers.

The latter results mostly from ransom ware or open ended theft and exploitation of my data.

The threats are not all from the Internet. I saw an article recently about ‘smart’ TVs that are configured to be part of a web scraping infrastructure that the vendors sell as a service, in some cases configured to use up to 200GB per month of bandwidth.