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Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)
DevGAMM · Jul 10, 2019 · 1h 2m
What this video covers
A DevGAMM talk by Jonathan Blow arguing that civilizations can lose technological capability and that software quality is already deteriorating. He discusses how knowledge fails to transfer between generations.
Why it surfaced in Hacker News
It is the standard link in HN threads about software decay, lost knowledge and fragile technological civilization.
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Recommendation context
Short excerpts from positive mentions. Open the source to read the full Hacker News discussion.
“A fantastic talk.”
“makes a good argument that software quality has already suffered significant deterioration”
“The eye-opening moment, for me, was the importance (and neglect) of the inter-generational transfer of knowledge in maintaining technological complexity.”