There is one fact that I take comfort in through all of this. It is the simple fact that the massive amount of learning, experimentation, and natural ability that is required to gain the skills needed to do something like this, tends to also instill the discipline and sense of responsibility to prevent misuse. Not every "Uber-Hacker" for lack of a better term is good, but most are.

I do believe that there will be massive virus/worm outbreaks in the future, whose size and complexities we cannot even fathom today. But when they come, they will be nothing more than an inconvenience, or simple setback. Money will be lost, computers will crash, people may even get hurt. But the internet is more than a network. It has become a connection shared throughout the world. The idea of a connected world is one that cannot be destroyed by viruses. The hardware can be hurt, but the internet will survive. Ideas cannot be destroyed.