I liked the comparison of boomers with TVs and Gen Z with modern technology (essentially smartphones with several corporations inside).

Here, the failure is not only social (that people's "firmware" has been replaced and it has suddenly become normal to publish and give all their data to large corporations), but also technical - if you look at most of the younger generation with smartphones in their hands, they can't do anything with these smartphones because, first of all, the "social firmware" itself has been replaced (most people do not need freedom, they do not strive for it), and also because the corporation owns the device itself, which is locked to restrict the freedom of the user who will suddenly demands it.

It is also worth mentioning Richard Stallman, who was also a visionary in the 80s, and was proven right in many ways.

I was surprised: you said that there are "a large number of individuals and organizations that can provide legal protection". Don't you think it is naive to believe that "legality" exists in the current financial/political system?