No one left who understands. [ . . . ] A world floating atop a sea of programs we've come to rely on but no longer truly understand or control. Code and forget; code and forget: programming as a collective exercise in incremental forgetting.
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clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 05-Aug-2024 09:34:02 JST 
clacke[ . . . ] In March, the New York Times reported that IBM had told the Federal Aviation Administration that, come the millennium, the existing system would stop functioning reliably. IBM's advice was to completely replace the system because, they said, there was "no one left who understands the inner workings of the host computer."
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