I see it as opening my eyes to the complexity we've all gotten used to, not necessarily a harbinger of doom, just a necessary wake up call. When I was young, I

I see it as opening my eyes to the complexity we've all gotten used to, not necessarily a harbinger of doom, just a necessary wake up call. When I was young, I thought that newer was better, I learned across the years that a more conservative approach is a wiser course. Progress is something that happens when the forces permit it, and the people push hard for it. There's nothing permanent about it, though. In my view, Linus Torvalds was wrong in his debate with his teacher, Andrew Tanenbaum[1]. We're still a decade out, hopefully not more, from a move to capability based operating systems. These will be more secure, and should provide some actual improvements in stability as a side effect. We may be nearing peak silicon, but its really hard to say for sure. The ability to mass manufacture chips has a very high barrier to entry, but doing it at a lower scale, or lesser density, has fallen quite far thanks to all the lessons learned on the way. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_deb...