 What is a "trusted computer"?
All we have to rely on are our wits, fortitude, and common humanity Contemporary life is not chaotic, in the colloquial sense we apply to disaster zones. The Web, after all, is less than a generation old. Its very unpredictability makes it unwise to build systems that take too much away from what human beings do best: look, think, innovate, adapt, discuss, learn, and repeat. That is why we have seen many more systems take on a loose, human centric model in the last decade and a half: from the radical divergence of Toyota’s production system from the highly structured model put in place by Henry Ford, to the Internet’s radical departure from the AT&T system that preceded it, and on to the way Wikipedia constructs human knowledge on the fly, incrementally, in ways that would have been seen, until recently, as too chaotic ever to work (and are still seen so be many). Trains and planes, telegraph and telephone, all brought many people into the same causal space. The solution to this increased complexity in the late 19th, early 20th century was to increase the role of structure and improve its design. During the first two-thirds of the twentieth century, this type of rationalization took the form of ever-more complex managed systems, with crisp specification of roles, lines of authority, communication and control.
 A computer that will not run a program without authorization from some other locus, such as a copyright owner.
 A computer system that implements the belief that machines are trustworthy, while human users are malevolent and or incompetent.  A computer system that is well-designed and tightly bound.  A computer that will not run a program without authorization from some other locus, such as a copyright owner.  A computer system where human beings are located and can make decisions about what is worthwhile.