July 26, 2024
This past week, one tiny mistake in the code of a single third-party provider, one designed to secure software, was released without proper staging. Over the course of hours that turned to days, vast swaths of the civilized world stopped working. Flights were grounded. Deliveries stopped. Bank software collapsed. Security systems froze. Even many electronic doors stopped working. All over the world.
Now we find that the whole
of life depends on systems no one in particular controls, which have
never really been tested, and which cannot be fixed. The possibility of
global breakage for an unlimited amount of time is very real. Think of
it: even our lights and air systems are networked and running on apps,
to say nothing of the whole of the fiat-based and debt-driven monetary
and financial systems themselves.
And yet here we are, with
all the capital and energy being designated to building even more such
systems, this time being run by artificial intelligence. Again, they
are being constructed not as strong by virtue of decentralizatio
Jeffery Tucker
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