It really feels like internet infrastructure has been growing more unstable. More outages, feels like way more bugs happening on my apple products as well.
I believe this is the result of the same thing that causes all the chaos in all human fields, lack of consciousness. We live in a very distracted time, COVID is still one more stressor on top of all the other things we have to manage in the world we've built to be inhospitable to mental health.
There's a shift happening in certain areas, but I think the old guard of tech is due for a revolution of some kind. My two cents, to start we need to stop building things with such low-level tools.
> My two cents, to start we need to stop building things with such low-level tools.
Interesting -- my take is more that we should throw away the ever growing pile of high level tools and architecture and cruft and start all over again at the low level (I think accumulated complexity -- and accumulated expectations due to complexity -- cause a lot of issues). Heck maybe start by writing an OS and some useful applications that run on a $1 microcontroller that you can hand-solder on a cheap two-layer PCB. 256kB of SRAM and four megabytes of flash ought to be enough for quite a lot..
That said I don't necessarily mean we should abandon all progress e.g. in programming languages and revert to assembly and C'89.
I believe this is the result of the same thing that causes all the chaos in all human fields, lack of consciousness. We live in a very distracted time, COVID is still one more stressor on top of all the other things we have to manage in the world we've built to be inhospitable to mental health.
There's a shift happening in certain areas, but I think the old guard of tech is due for a revolution of some kind. My two cents, to start we need to stop building things with such low-level tools.