While I agree it's overdue, I'm not sure what that event would look like.
When a bridge falls down, building collapses, patients die, people take notice.
Meanwhile, we've had the social insurance numbers and banking history of 165M+ UK, US, and Canadian people leak out of sheer technical negligence [0], and it resulted in a meek settlement and hardly broke through the public consciousness.
It seems to me that until someone dies in a way that is very clearly linked directly to a woefully negligent and under-trained software engineer messing up in a very public way, the needle is not going to budge at all.
Perhaps autonomous cars? Even then I doubt it, to be honest.