We’re not even completely in the 1984 era yet. Read Cory Doctorow’s and Sybille Berg’s GRM. Brainfuck and RCE – Remote Code Execution. If you want to know how a post-1984 era would really look like, https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38327251-serverland portrays it in a realistic way.
tl;dr: People don’t care until it’s too late, but it will all collapse anyway.