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There are older predictions than that...

"If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization." - Gerald Weinberg, 1970's

> let the market fix the mess which the central planners have created

Isn't a Microsoft dependency failure market-driven? Compared to the 1960's and 1970's, the present-day software industry is much more driven by the market than it is by the government.

by acobster1 hours ago|

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> Isn't a Microsoft dependency failure market-driven?

Not only that, but perhaps if anti-trust laws were actually enforced, we might actually have competitive alternatives.

by coliveira1 hours ago|

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Not only they are concentrating power in the hands of an oligopoly, but they're making the whole country unsafe. If everyone uses the same datacenters, it is enough to shut down a few of these data centers to bring civilization to a halt in this country. With the current AI trends, this risk is getting ever greater.

by socketcluster1 hours ago|

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Yes it seems very dangerous. Also, I think a lot of the software we use today, we don't need or we could make much more efficient. We almost certainly don't need so many data centres. Most businesses could self-host their own systems. Even a lot of large companies.

I feel like we probably only need a tiny fraction of the compute capacity if we let things be decentralized and let the market operate naturally.

This was my thought years ago and so now it looks blatantly obvious to me with AI data centres driving electricity prices. It's pretty clear the industry is being propped up by other parts of the economy.

by acobster1 hours ago|

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The real "central planners" are the billionaires who have led the way to oligopoly since the 80s. Not sure how handing them more power is going to help distribute it.