Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-28816571-20181026005720

This may bring with it over-simplification and misconstruing but...

Throughout much of history, the masses of peasants that existed across much of the civilized Old World had the ability to seriously challenge the authority of their respective rulers when they rose up in rebellion, an ability mostly restricted with the establishment of weapons of mass destruction such as the Maxim Gun, among others, in modern armies. With the destructive potential of hacking and the ever-connected world however, is it possible that such uprisings may happen once again within the foreseeable future? 