I wonder how many fewer engineers we have due to teenagers not being able to help fix up old cars anymore?
@Meaningness Black-boxification improves efficiency but there's a huge resilience downside, I think.
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@St_Rev I can see the logic of that, but would want examples before agreeing to its cogency...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@St_Rev … financial derivatives being too easy to count :-) -
@Meaningness Mid-century automobiles kept limping along for 50 years. A similar political shock today and you'd have nothing after 10 years. -
@St_Rev Nice example! Probably only relevant in a really dire scenario, though. -
@Meaningness Put another way, when the next asteroid/solar storm/plague hits, do you want to be knocked back to 1500s tech or 1900s tech? -
@St_Rev In the case of my car, I’d like it to be knocked back to 1983 tech. Grumble.
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@St_Rev@Meaningness Black-boxification also chases away experiment-minded people. 's why bright kids nowadays mostly go into coding -
@aperfectbalance@St_Rev So we can now worry that non-programmable iDevices will result in a programmer dearth in 15 years. -
@Meaningness@St_Rev I do worry about this. And about the stuff we're missing because we get less bright kids in other tech fields
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