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This is the tradeoff we get with technology. It gets increasingly better with every iteration but the consequences of failure gets worse and worse. What happens
by Moru 9y ago
This is the tradeoff we get with technology. It gets increasingly better with every iteration but the consequences of failure gets worse and worse. What happens with humanity if a big solarstorm comes again?
- ehnto 9y agoWe are incredibly eager to introduce technology dependencies it seems. The idea of robustness via simplicity seems to be a mantra for individual bits of software, but we are happy to stack it all together in a teetering jenga tower of dependencies. We rave about how great it is to have a good ecosystem in a platform or language, but the word ecosystem is synonymous with complex dependency trees (ha!). Nature is definitely a more robust architect than us though. As for what I would do when it all falls apart, I would barter for a sailing boat and some paper books on how to sail, and live the life of an ocean vagabond until I inevitably perish on some island or at sea.