I used to spend a lot of time, money, and energy racing bicycles. I really appreciated the simplicity, reliability and grace of well designed and built bikes. It's one of the few industrial-revolution era machines that's seen constant iterative improvement and honing. A line of generations of scientists, engineers, designers, and mechanics moved that machine from what it was in the 1880s to where it is today. They were guided by nature, really.
Compare that to software. Over the years, computers have gotten much faster and have more capacity and capabilities, but software is still just about as clunky and shitty as it was in 1990. My android cell phone, for example, periodically crashes and locks up for no apparent reason. Apps work one day but inexplicably fail weeks later.
Android employs various technologies and techniques that are supposed to make it more reliable and robust, but they fail to do so. Crappy applications can cause the whole phone to lock up and reboot in spite of layer after layer of hardware and software protection. All the time and industry effort that went into that was a plain and simple fail.
The tech industry is getting more and more layers of management and bureaucracy as the years go by and is maybe hitting peak retard today as corporations like Faceberg and Twatter and Gulag inject the rando politics of their dinner party cronies and executives into their products.
The whole western world is primed for a major shift in how we do things. We're at the proverbial fork in the road. The central planners, centralizers in general, believe central planning can work this time because of computers and software. Their plan seems to be to force people into an electronic gulag/SoyPunk dystopia where every aspect of life is monitored and controlled by some piece of shit software and some Technocrat High Priest.
Ironically, the Internet, the child of oodles of formal language codes and the mechanism the anti-western tech totalitarians want to use to build their e-prisons will probably kill their project. The Internet creates mechanisms to undermine and surpass legalisms and bureaucracy. The concept of the meta-animal or egregore is a good one for understanding what might happen in coming years.
The nervous system of the corporate/bureaucracy egregore runs on formal languages and basic symbols. It has limited senses and only a distorted, black and white, low resolution apprehension of our plane of existence. Most of all it has zero sense of humor. It's sort of like the 'borg of Star Trek.
The memes of the Internet counterculture give a hint at the egregore that will supplant the 'borg. They take advantage of the information density and high bandwidth of the Internet and are more in line with the human nervous system and mind than the accountant's ledger book or the software engineer's code editor.
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