I'm not referring to the fact that most people don't know how their computers work, and thus a ren't fully aware of the influence that the thing has on their working methods. We know that somewhere there's someone who understands exactly how our device works. We trust that this person has built the device with good intentions. Criticism of the manufacturers of our tools always accentuates relative side issues such as the pursuit of profits, market manipulation, expansion of production workers and pollution of the environment. The basic trust remains that the technological product itself tries to be a well intentioned fulfillment of our needs.
People trust people.
Computers are made by people. And thus people trust computers. Go odness gracious, how inconvenient of the programmers. Meanwhile, the developments in genetic programming are spinning ahead rapidly without anyone asking about what the consequences might be. In other words, instead of still having to write the programs themselves, the computer scientist of the next century will simply breed t hem.