Article note: The article is basically a "Get over it, after complexity lost with Multics, now complexity has won" argument.
Posting partly to test my stupid syndication gadget.
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.