> Laws of physics are very important to software engineering.

there are practical concerns abound, especially if you're going to focused as you have on on industrialized software production.

but to me the defining nature of computing & the digital is that it is very near to unlimited, that it is about how we think, what abstractions we create, out of vast vast vast potential & endless capabilities.

yes there are some limits. but growing up, I wanted to build boats & houses & submarines & planes. much of the attraction of digital technology was a near into complete freedom from physical constraint. the 486 I had was a machine with infinite potential, something I could put myself into endlessly, ever becoming more, ever imagineering further frontiers to build & advance into, & everyone else could do the same, & we might still never cross paths. computers are an "unmaterial" wonder, something wholly unlike all else.

I implore us to think not just of the limits, laws, but of the endless spaces the mind might be free to travel & explore amid the digital.