Privacy adoption will follow the internet's open-system adoption curve
Priv8 Virtual Privacy Summit 2021: Featuring Glenn Greenwald, Dr. Steven Waterhouse, and more! (Orchid Labs)
“I’m actually weirdly a little optimistic just looking at our history of tool adoption… when the internet really came about… people did adopt internet because the convenience of an open system, the value of an open system… even though it wasn’t very clear, somehow it was perceived as valuable.” — 04:45:33
Context: Responding to JJ’s pessimism that privacy/convenience trade-offs block mainstream adoption; he cites the clunky early web winning over polished “fat software.”