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You're snidely dismissing the obstacles as being restricted to _today_, projecting into an arbitrary future to the point of being science fiction, and then complaining about "smug hand-waving"?

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I don't understand why every person who takes the counterposition against you, Bryan, is always just talking about some hypothetical future like they're some Vedic astrologer, lecturing you about how this "real" future they see totally renders your argument pointless.

In this case, that seems to be exactly what the parent commenter is doing.

Your article is supposedly about "listening to the subject matter experts", but you failed to do that, and you immediately fell back to "all of your possible futures that sound really bad are science fiction with no possibility, source: me. My future prediction is grounded truth and guaranteed, source: me." Not that there's any meaningful future extrapolation about hacking anymore, but whatever.

If that's the only argument you're willing to defend, at least be up front about that.

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