Abandoning general purpose computing is too crazy, as it amounts to throwing away software. The anonymous internet is a dead-man walking, but silicon valley is as complicit in this as the government will be.
However, software engineering will change into a much more regulated environment. Writing software for the web will eventually become like writing software for the space shuttle: slow, rigorous and very expensive.
It will also kill the hacker culture, as hacking together a piece of software will become like hacking together a bridge: illegal.
However, software engineering will change into a much more regulated environment. Writing software for the web will eventually become like writing software for the space shuttle: slow, rigorous and very expensive.
It will also kill the hacker culture, as hacking together a piece of software will become like hacking together a bridge: illegal.