Competition (academic and free market) makes big jumps unlikely.

Most of the improvements that any one company is trying to do to get 2X or more performance has already been done, by the time they get to market, by other companies trying to beat them to market. Only a percentage of things they manage to do differently (perhaps things that other companies didn't think were worth doing) differentiate the performance of any one company's product.

The laws currently on the books are past the size and complexity level for any human to be able to determine whether they've broken any laws while just going about their normal daily lives. Even just the FDA regulations alone causes pharmaceutical companies to hire teams of regulatory specialists and lawyers to keep up with the required paperwork for their products to be legal.

Not necessarily. Several neighborhoods in several cities around my region have petitioned and gotten the city to actually complete block-off a smaller neighborhood street, or turn the street into one-way against the normal commute flow direction. "traffic-perverters". Make everyone have to go around a public-tax-paid-for blockage of a previous public-paid-for passageway.

The significant difference is that mobsters often try to hide the body (concrete overshoes, etc.) to lower the chances of getting caught. They might want a rival mob to know, but not the general public. And they usually don't blow themselves up trying. Terrorists usually want the body (before/after the beheading, et.al.) to be seen by millions on network news and youtube for some anticipated psychological effect on the general public.

There are those who just want the loot, and don't care about the effect on the general public (and its economic and political repercussions), and those who do.

The number of thousands that die per annum due to motor vehicle accidents and domestic violence is a tiny fraction of the population that no one expects to double next year. Thus these risks to you are not systemic. You confuse these highly predictable risks with systemic risks that cannot be so easily bounded. The Chernobal dead zone is larger than many countries, and similar events do not have good consistent per-annum statistics.

One of those odds is an individual risk. The other is a systemic risk that can also end up in the death of many of your family, friends, coworkers and bystanders. So relating the two odds sounds statistically intelligent, but is really a form of systemic risk blindness.

It's likely that some percentage of these customers are receptive, whether they think they are or not, or there wouldn't be any payback for the advertising cost that shows up in analytic or A/B market test data.

Woz's design of the Apple II was nothing like what was described in the MOS Technology 6502 app notes or the KIM-1 SBC. The Apple II was based on a unified memory sub-system capable of time-division-multiplexed color video refresh and 6502 R/W. It also had decoded slots and an Integer BASIC interpreter. All Woz's unique design, and very different from most typical computer logic designs of that era.

Of course there are serious risks to engineering... to be traded off against the huge risks of the planetary science experiment ongoing since the dawn of agriculture and the industrial revolution, the risks of modifying that science experiment and waiting to see what happens, or of potentially fighting over the enforcement of planetary carbon, water, pollution, and etc. rights inferred by those modifications.

Next, they figure out a way for all the cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys to sue over their confinement and death sentences before being sent to your local grocer.

After that all the indoor cat people will be forced to let fluffy out in the street to get run over, or killed by raccoons.

In the end the ants, termites and cockroaches will re-take the planet for themselves. Death to all human slavers.

So instead the site designer creates a solution supposedly more far more "usable", and rides off into the sunset with a new slide for her presentation. But since no one actually working at the restaurant day-to-day is computer savy or has any time for keyboarding stuff while cooking or waiting on tables, the menu gets way out of date (until some waiter's kid who knows how to use the computer comes by), and the highly usable accessible searchable search result returns a bogus menu from last month.

With a camera feed, the cooks hurriedly wipes 3-eyed fish off the board with his sleeve after throwing the last one on the grill, and no blind person walks over to order one. She calls first.

Unless you use the same credit card you use for iTunes. Then they already have your credit card data. If you want additional privacy, use separate cards for iTunes and Apple Pay.