Re:Software Is Drowning the World
by blackbrokkoli on Sunday January 10, 2021 @12:18PM
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That is an extremely simplified view of non-software.
Hardware standards shift because of an Apple PR camopaign. We stopped using zeppelins only after one disaster of several dozens made very public by live radio coverage. Non-Sufficiently standardized rockets explode because countries can't pick a measurement system. The auto industry in a country changes overnight because a dictator decides that the roadside to travel on shall be switched on a whim.
Just like software, infrastructure/hardware/whatever is an unfathomably complex web made from science, faith, half-knowledge, geopolitics, coincidences, rules, dick moves, physics and random tweets.
I don't think we are winning anything by trying to lift software onto some kind of pedestal of specialness in every regard...
Hardware standards shift because of an Apple PR camopaign. We stopped using zeppelins only after one disaster of several dozens made very public by live radio coverage. Non-Sufficiently standardized rockets explode because countries can't pick a measurement system. The auto industry in a country changes overnight because a dictator decides that the roadside to travel on shall be switched on a whim.
Just like software, infrastructure/hardware/whatever is an unfathomably complex web made from science, faith, half-knowledge, geopolitics, coincidences, rules, dick moves, physics and random tweets.
I don't think we are winning anything by trying to lift software onto some kind of pedestal of specialness in every regard...