No. It does not. A cashless society does not necessarily need the internet. Look up:-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

There are of course other examples. They can be made to work.

How long will the Kahn Academy last now?

My first thought...

British pop singer Dido.

No harm can come of that. The tree will be gone soon.

The Unix principle was to keep it simple. GNU/Linux followed those ideals. Systemd is not simple. It goes against the very principles of Unix.

Magic was just that. Who needs extensions?

As a side note: As someone pointed out. Ubuntu already has shell scripts to replace egrep/fgrep. They've been gone a while.

Those who don't grok Unix, almost certainly won't grok, grok?

through the roof.

Indeed all goods bought and sold via IT will be very expensive as everyone seeks to insure themselves. IE. The cost to the economy might be catastrophic.

"may not want to use or use as intended"

Yep - I do believe that is what they are worried about.

Sounds like an Arduino project to me!?!

Waters breaking from cabin compartment leaking into battery compartment...

This same argument applies to the side story of more women moving in to traditional male jobs. The more applicants, the less the pay has to be.

Konqueror - at least for some...

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

Half the time, if a captcha like that appears - I just stop using the site. I can't be bothered with it. Not worth the time or misery.

Look - when you have the skills to see an issue and the experience to know how to overcome it, then this is not really a problem.

If GitHub gets in the way it will be replaced. Git is after all open source.

If VSCode / VSCodium starts to be annoying, likewise. Screw it. You could try Eclipse?

Same with TypeScript. It will just fork if there is a problem. This is the way of open source code.

Learn JavaScript. Learn your favorite basic editor. (vi, vim, ex, ed, nano, emacs, whatever) You are safe for some time.

Don't like what you see - move on.

Oh and npm - who cares? If you built a project that relies too heavily on a package manager then perhaps rethink your decision.