> Everything is encrypted and pseudo-“secured” by “Trusted Hardware” that you totally can’t understand because it is entirely proprietary and undocumented

I fear this dystopia isn't "25 years" away, and more like 5. Once governments realise they can mandate OS vendors to block "unauthorised" applications from being installed, it will become very difficult to buy a computer that boots "unauthorised" OSes, or at least to go online with such a device.