There are audit trails and compliance for this stuff. It's a solved problem. Techbros just don't understand what's already there and think it needs to be fixed with something that happens to make them rich.
There's nothing there that can't be done with a standard, public database. What's lacking is the political will to modernize these systems. NFTs don't solve that.
I brought up Ticketmaster because it's a common thing to bring up for NFT replacement. A dumb thing to bring up, because while everyone hates Ticketmaster, people don't understand why venues are beholden to them and how NFTs won't solve that.
Barrett is an interesting one. She was there to provide a woman's voice against abortion. That job is done now. She was expected to line up with everything else in MAGA, but she's slowly realizing what a hell hole that is. Like Serena Waterford discovering that this isn't the world she wanted after all.
There's a little role playing game called "Call of Cathulu" that explicitly uses this as a story device. The human ape god was killed in a giant cosmic war thousands of years ago. This allowed some cats to get the idea that if they applied subtle psychic pressure to us, we would create civilization that would result in a comfortable life for cats. Human civilization is literally a feline conspiracy.
Cons: capitalism is already ruining it with monoculture strains and subsequent crop loss from one little thing wiping out everything. Industry trade groups are forming to be the next generation of lobbyists. For now, they're on our side by focusing on legalization, but they won't be on our side forever.
A lot of it was fair criticism at the time. Linux fixed some of what was wrong. Having a good sudo config mostly resolves the problem of having one superuser account, and big, multiuser systems are a lot less common now, anyway. X's network transparency features aren't that useful in modern computing contexts, either, though I have found a few over the years.
But mostly, it's because the landscape changed from a hundred Unix vendors vs a bunch of other OSen, to now where it's Windows vs Linux vs OSX. By that comparison, the two with Unix-derived history look well thought out.
(This also implies that NextStep was the one old Unix vendor that has survived in a meaningful way. I don't think anyone would have guessed that 30 years ago.)
Probably just the way the uniform fits. That's Patricia Tallman, who also body doubled for Gates McFadden, and played Lyta Alexander on Babylon 5. She's a hot redhead (even after all these years), but not especially buxom in regular clothes.
It has the most important aspect of cheap frozen pizza. Which is the cheese having built up on one side because it was shipped that way in the truck.