>that touching it or keeping it anywhere near your computer network is a company-ending disaster about to happen.

Well, that would require such leaks to result in a company ending disaster. Instead they keep chugging as normal and the customers who got their information leaked don't even move off the platform for greener pastures. What a boring dystopia we live in.

That has actually become part of my philosophy for predicting the future: We're all biased towards things which fit a dramatic story or movie, which puts an unrealistic floor on things like meaninglessness, chaos, stupidity, or boredom.

So to a certain extent, any prediction which gets people excited and captures their imagination is already off.