- Patches on patches and old bugs resurfacing with new ones will cause sysadmins to prematurely age and drop out of the profession - Despite ever-more sophisti

- Patches on patches and old bugs resurfacing with new ones will cause sysadmins to prematurely age and drop out of the profession - Despite ever-more sophisticated designs and capabilities, machines will struggle to run the latest versions of applications that do the same thing as their predecessors decades ago - Computing systems will feel more and more like houses of cards held together with string and tape, as "excess value" is aggressively engineered out Oh wait. I was describing the Anti-Singularity (a pet theory of mine that all technological development inevitably outpaces our ability to maintain it, and that we will end our days desperately trying to get barely-functional systems that we have no hope of re-creating, to do something useful).