It was foreseen, it has been spoken about for years where it will lead. But I wonder, perhaps not having major conflict for so long has made us complacent.
Even after the infrastructure, if all of the news is coming from a handful of sources and they are also the ones who verify, what chance is there?
Once upon a time a very long time ago, I watched a news segment get something I knew a lot about so incredibly wrong that they had to have done it deliberately because even the fasted seearch 5min before the segment would have made them get it more right than they did.
And that was on something unimportant (so much so I literally can't even remember what it was about, just the memory of me being really mad because of how WRONG they were stuck with me XD).
That was the event that made me question how much this "reputtable" and "reliable" source of information that people seem to believe infallible got wrong (deliberately or otherwise) and both statistically and demonstrably it seems I'm not the only one that thinks like that, so I'm not that worried in the grand scheme about news from only a handful of sources staying as the one true authority.
perhaps I should be but I am an optimistic idealist, or an idealistic optimist, I'm not sure which one
Infrastructure that can be shut down on a whim on the other hand >_<