SOFTWAREage

Agricultural -> Machine -> Software

"a challenge that is absolutely without precedent in the history of Mankind"

a radical novelty

we are trapped in yet another middle income trap delusional of having reached some end point to tweak and optimize. The promise of a newly born age not even began let alone fulfilled, in a proto-age still trembeling from birthing pangs. Ignored or denied, an unsetteling radical novelty passed off as toys and tinkering.

technocracy? information age?

no

at best, they are merely ruinous nostalgia and hubris from the peak of the last age, pursuing the now traditional local maxima. The many varied failures of the 20th century don't enlighten much, some at least noticed the problem being faced; yet their efforts proved impotent and horrifying. Information, dead software, will not be sufficient, an oily resource trap easily squandered. New wine should not be put into old bottles, and century-old causes du jour don't even scale to our current extent.

what is software?

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1989

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the greatest problem

how to scale coordination of participants whom have growing value-variance without the enabeling constraints of physicality and locality. while avoiding the failure of total (soft)WARRE?