> There are so many improvements we could be making, but corporations don't see any "immediate shareholder value", so they sit around happy as pigs in shit with the status quo.
I would affirm that. It's imho true for almost everything in IT tech.
How computers "work" today is just pure madness when looked anyhow closer.
Everything's a result of some "historic accidents" back in the days, and from that the usual race to the bottom caused by market powers.
Nobody is willing to touch any of the lower layers no matter how crazy they are form today's viewpoint. We just shovel new layers on top to paper over the mistakes of the past. Nothing gets repaired, or actually what would be more more important, rethought form the ground up in light of new technological possibilities and changed requirements.
I understand from the economic standpoint how this comes. But I'm also quite sure we didn't make any fundamental improvements in the last 50 years of computing.
That's a very bad sign when everything in a field that's not even really 100 years old is frozen in time since 50 years because everything's so fragile and complex that fundamental changes aren't possible. This looks like a text book example of a house of cards…
Given how vital IT tech is to modern life I fear that this will crash at some point in the worst way possible.
And even if it won't crash, which is really strongly hope, we will never have nice things again as nothing of the old rotten things can be reasonably changed.
I would affirm that. It's imho true for almost everything in IT tech.
How computers "work" today is just pure madness when looked anyhow closer.
Everything's a result of some "historic accidents" back in the days, and from that the usual race to the bottom caused by market powers.
Nobody is willing to touch any of the lower layers no matter how crazy they are form today's viewpoint. We just shovel new layers on top to paper over the mistakes of the past. Nothing gets repaired, or actually what would be more more important, rethought form the ground up in light of new technological possibilities and changed requirements.
I understand from the economic standpoint how this comes. But I'm also quite sure we didn't make any fundamental improvements in the last 50 years of computing.
That's a very bad sign when everything in a field that's not even really 100 years old is frozen in time since 50 years because everything's so fragile and complex that fundamental changes aren't possible. This looks like a text book example of a house of cards…
Given how vital IT tech is to modern life I fear that this will crash at some point in the worst way possible.
And even if it won't crash, which is really strongly hope, we will never have nice things again as nothing of the old rotten things can be reasonably changed.