Saturday, September 30, 2017

The Coming Software Apocalypse

The Atlantic Magazine

The subtitle is A small group of programmers wants to change how we code—before catastrophe strikes.

Why is this in the Atlantic Magazine - and not in a programming magazine?

I have read it carefully, it is a long article - and can find no fault it it. Except for one thing - the Apocalypse has already happened, and I have been in it. Several times.

Apocalypse has been redefined. It now occurs piecemeal - some things go down, and some things go up. This is a big improvement, a huge improvement. Before, when most things went down - everything went down. Because everything was tied to everything else.

We are now divided into two worlds - the Mechanical world, made of real stuff. And the Software world, made of - nothing but software.

The two are connected - but only loosely.

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