Who will the masses ultimately follow: solitary tech savvy geeks who warn of naked emperors? Or armies of corporate-sponsored feel-good social influencers who entertain by promoting only themselves and the fad-du-jour?

I know none of the former who have built self-promotion-based $multi-million empires. I wish that were true of the latter.

The masses will do the easy thing, signal was made and adopted by WhatsApp for example.

The magic and evil of software and hardware is that you don’t have to understand it to use it. Elon musk memed people into crypto.