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<p>[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 8308490, member: 27832"]Yeah, but -- that's where we are. Our "technology stack", the inventions that enabled the inventions that enabled the inventions that we now rely on, keeps getting deeper. <b>As it always has</b>, except during times when civilization faltered and slid back, <i>losing</i> the hard-won knowledge on which it was built.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>You can't</b> understand how everything you use today works, in detail. There's too much knowledge for any one head to hold. But, even though I'm pathologically curious, I don't <i>want</i> to limit myself to using only technologies I can understand completely, top-to-bottom, on my own.</p><p><br /></p><p>In some areas, I <i>do</i> think we as a civilization are getting too far ahead of ourselves. The breakneck race to pile more features into our software is going to end in tears; it's already in tears, but nobody's figured out how to slow it down.</p><p><br /></p><p>But <i>progress is good</i>, overall. Everybody grouses about how complicated cars have gotten, but you aren't ready to go back to horse and buggies. And when the idiot coming the other way crosses the line, you're happier hobbling away from the head-on collision with seat belt bruises and air-bag scuffs than waiting for the firemen to pull you off the steering post. And I'll bet you can't explain off the top of your head the chemistry of the explosive in the airbag, or the mechanism that locked the seatbelt against sudden tension, or the finite-element analysis of the crumple zones in the front of the car.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="-jeffB, post: 8308490, member: 27832"]Yeah, but -- that's where we are. Our "technology stack", the inventions that enabled the inventions that enabled the inventions that we now rely on, keeps getting deeper. [B]As it always has[/B], except during times when civilization faltered and slid back, [I]losing[/I] the hard-won knowledge on which it was built. [B]You can't[/B] understand how everything you use today works, in detail. There's too much knowledge for any one head to hold. But, even though I'm pathologically curious, I don't [I]want[/I] to limit myself to using only technologies I can understand completely, top-to-bottom, on my own. In some areas, I [I]do[/I] think we as a civilization are getting too far ahead of ourselves. The breakneck race to pile more features into our software is going to end in tears; it's already in tears, but nobody's figured out how to slow it down. But [I]progress is good[/I], overall. Everybody grouses about how complicated cars have gotten, but you aren't ready to go back to horse and buggies. And when the idiot coming the other way crosses the line, you're happier hobbling away from the head-on collision with seat belt bruises and air-bag scuffs than waiting for the firemen to pull you off the steering post. And I'll bet you can't explain off the top of your head the chemistry of the explosive in the airbag, or the mechanism that locked the seatbelt against sudden tension, or the finite-element analysis of the crumple zones in the front of the car.[/QUOTE]
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