Today in 1983, Fred Cohen, a student at the University of Southern California School of Engineering, conceived of the first computer virus to be labeled a “virus” (which unlike “worms” require the spreading of an infected host file), as an experiment to be presented at a weekly seminar on computer security.
Four years later, Cohen published a demonstration that there is no algorithm that can perfectly detect all possible viruses.
Silicon Valley loves hype and loves to label its innovations as “this changes everything.” Not only its innovations do not change “everything,” certainly not the most important aspect of our (social) existence which is human nature, the slogan falsely implies that all innovations are good for us. Some innovations are good for us, some are very bad, and many echnological innovations are (or could be) good and bad at the same time.