Article note: The tragedy of computing.
Simple systems become complex systems because they haphazardly accrete until the sunk cost is an unassailable pit.
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that “my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”