For most of human history, Beck argues, risks came from unknowable and uncontrollable forces — natural disasters, famine, disease.
Criticizing the way Allo silos end-to-end encryption within an "incognito" mode, which the EFF argues risks confusing users and risks sensitive data leaking out, it accuses Google of "training users to use encryption as an occasional measure" — going on to conclude that: "A more responsible messaging app would make security and privacy — not machine learning and AI — the default".
Online courses, they argued, risked "replacing faculty with cheap online education".
Welfare polices that encouraged poor women to have babies, the book argued, risked lowering average American IQ.
The combination of liberalised banking with an undemocratic, lopsided and deflationary currency union that critics (on both left and right in this case) had always argued risked breaking apart was a disaster waiting to happen.
Instead of facing an eternity in detention offshore or on Christmas Island, they face a fast-tracked assessment of their claims in Australia that many argue risks sending genuine refugees back to their countries of origin.
North Korea, he argued, "risks biting the Chinese hand that feeds it".China has been exasperated with North Korea before, not least in 2006, after its first test of a nuclear weapon.
Tunisia, they argue, risks going the way of Egypt, where autocratic rule was restored last year following a military coup against the elected Muslim Brotherhood government.
A completely individual approach to rights, they argue, risks disregarding existing socially located rights and privileges in many African societies.
Otherwise, Coty argues, investors risk having the value of their holdings tumble again.
