Fortune magazine predicted this back in 1992. They did a study that correlated the growth of developers graduating from college was either flat or linear. The growth of computing needs was exponential. The end result of would be an exponential decrease in discipline in software as amateurs, hackers, trades people and what not necessarily fill the void. There is no other outcome. The challenge is for those areas such as military arsenals, power grids, healthcare and other safety domains to firewall off from the undisciplined masses and enforce discipline. However, Fortune pointed out that capitalism doesn't reward safety when its cheaper to hire good lawyers and litigate. So Fortune also predicted an explosion in tort and tort lawyers. Verner Vinge wrote about this in his novels. He supposed that rationalization will ensue and that undisciplined code will be seen as security through obscurity, a Gordian knot of convolution. One possible scenario is more-or-less Skynet were a few computing centers replace millions of devices. This makes sense from a capitalism perspective and governments can a few tightly controlled central services. So those are the choices given human nature. What's not a choice is an increase in discipline because, you know, human nature.