I look at it differently: I survey how much apparently useless and baroque infrastructure has been overplayed on top of core functionality and dismay. Those wer

I look at it differently: I survey how much apparently useless and baroque infrastructure has been overplayed on top of core functionality and dismay. Those were essentially embedded systems running on bare metal; basically “parts of a machine”. Now our systems are far more intricate — but they seem to be far less efficient.