Design is the new buzzword in Software Development. It implies that our Software (and by implication, our world) can be designed - more or less satisfactorily.
This is a dubious proposition - and people throughout history have questioned it.
I picked up a book that has languished on my desk (a tribe of tiny ants have made it their home, meanwhile). It is Dickinson, by Helen Vendler.
Poem #423 is about a mental collapse that she suffered from - and never fully recovered from. No one seemed to have noticed this.
Let me repeat that last sentence - no one noticed this - one of the most important events in her life! Her family had no intention of hurting her - but hurt her, they did.
The same thing happens in any business - it doesn't intend to hurt people - but it does!
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