I had a few cocktails and thought about a few points made in the video. It seems to me that there are two different notions here that are being conflated: . A

I had a few cocktails and thought about a few points made in the video. It seems to me that there are two different notions here that are being conflated: . A rotting of knowledge over time. . A variant of Moore's Law. In this case, the idea that the value of technology, in a particular area, has a decreasing value on the margin. It's kind of like the notions you see in cliodynamics, that there are a few interacting sine waves (or some other function) in mass human behavior. I suppose that the main concept of importance is how it all might mess with your own personal situation. Personally, I think that the West is in decline, but that doesn't have a whole lot to do with the quality of software on internet websites.