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Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)
DevGAMM
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.
It is the standard link in HN threads about software decay, lost knowledge and fragile technological civilization.
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