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Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)

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A DevGAMM talk by Jonathan Blow arguing that civilizations can lose technological capability and that software quality is already deteriorating. He discusses how knowledge fails to transfer between generations.

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It is the standard link in HN threads about software decay, lost knowledge and fragile technological civilization.

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