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I think "this time it's different" for reasons that aren't clear yet, but for technical people, has been an ominous fear for some decades.

It comes to this: Computer Systems aren't simply inert turing machines we can pull the plug on anymore. We are letting them off the leash and they are moving on their own out in the world, and they are making decisions to interact as peers or better within our social structures.

The car analogy [0] doesn't work anymore because cars are starting to drive themselves.

If you put this into an ecological premise, consider that we've been at the top of the food chain, above all other animals, and we have dominated the biosphere for a million or more years.

Now we are introducing machines as peers and they may soon dominate us, if we're not careful.

Look at the examples in the article, and consider that malfunctioning wi-fi might illustrate how poorly equipped most people are, to confront machines that don't act in their best interests.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_analogy