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As I keep saying. Some people chuckle about Warhammer 40k Techno Priests. The only people in the warhammer universe with some chance to understand the centuries
by tetha 9y ago
As I keep saying. Some people chuckle about Warhammer 40k Techno Priests. The only people in the warhammer universe with some chance to understand the centuries old compuer systems and machines. Other people work with legacy systems.
- ENGNR 9y agoIt's pretty genius how they've turned ancient maintenance routines into prayers and rituals in order to preserve the knowledge and scale out the work force
- RubenSandwich 9y agoWe do it too. I hold my breath every time I kick over an old server that it comes back again. They just formalized it.
- posterboy 9y agoit might lead to cargo culting though, already hoards of programmers are chanting refrains of "_ considered harmful" and "_ is the root of all evil" ... ;)
- eru 9y agoIt's deliberately _worse_ than cargo culting in Warhammer 40k. That universe is deliberately set up to be as bleak and cynical as possible. Partly just for fun, partly to serve the game a justification why any faction would get into a skirmish with any other faction (including itself).
- adrianN 9y agoThe oldest occurence of this idea that I know of is in Asimov's Foundation series, where a class of priests preserves knowledge about nuclear technology and robots.
- andyzweb 9y agoknowledge is a priesthood
- eru 9y agoThe Tau might be able to reverse engineer?