Of course it doesn't get less complex. If anything the opposite is true. And that's precisely the point, if I got his points right. The sheer complexity of mod

Of course it doesn't get less complex. If anything the opposite is true. And that's precisely the point, if I got his points right. The sheer complexity of modern computing devices and infrastructure, couple with the abundance of broadband Internet access, have resulted in the proliferation of "appliance-like" devices and cloud-based services. After all most of the time consumers want to view photos on their smartphone and not to deal with the file system. In the same vein, IT would rather fire up an EC2 instance than having to manage a physical server in their data center. In my view, that's the gist of the post-PC/post-server centric world -- what on the surface today are pushed down to the inner layers, hidden away from users.