@steve-2 Jones wrote:

It's scary to think how the world may change when any individual, as well as any country, could attack our digital systems. It means security is more and more important all the time.

It makes me wonder if the game is always worth the candle. When do we actually need automation and digital systems? Are we automating for automation's sake? Would analogue technologies or even manual processes be more appropriate?

I'm not advocating we go back to the Eisenhower era, but perhaps we should at least occassonally rethink our (over?)reliance upon digital technology.