Douglas Adams said this thing about how you should never consider how utterly improbable it is that miraculously complex things keep working, because suddenly t

Douglas Adams said this thing about how you should never consider how utterly improbable it is that miraculously complex things keep working, because suddenly they won't. I mean, if you woke up each day and pondered the intricacies of cellular mitochondia and your own endocrine system... the anxiety would be crippling. After 50 odd years of computing which began soldering my own from TTL chips and transistors in the 1980s I find the only way to navigate current levels of abstraction is to join the kids in their kind of optimistic, faith-based wishful thinking, just let go and float above it all. But every now and again something goes wrong and absolutely nobody but people like you and I can even imagine what it might be. More terrifying is meeting people with very inflated job titles, in positions of enormous wealth, power and responsibility, whose knowledge of even the most elementary physics and logic is absent. They're actually kind of proud of that, and positively celebrate ignorance all the "things they don't need to know". Part of me finds that insulting and disrespectful.