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@cwebber There was a television adaptation of My Brilliant Friend that I watched. A subplot, late in the series, involved a factory in the 1970s, and a self-taught engineer who was working out how to automate it, who started by mapping the logic the factory already followed.

I feel like that was the point where the computer industry made sense, because it was grounded.

We've layered abstraction upon abstraction on top of that, and so we have systems that not even professional developers can comprehend.

I think the gravity that pulls the bobsled is poorly understood, and I think there's the problem Ivan Illich tried to explain in Tools for Conviviality, with unfortunately problematic examples.