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Complexity · 4377 days ago · link · · parent · post: Stupid is Winning: We are in the final years of our internet
A related theme is addressed in Vernor Vinge's Rainbow's End in which the trend of technology has veered toward sealing hardware within inaccessible modules, so one cannot tinker with them. The motivation is the same whether in hardware or software: to reduce the extent to which an individual can reverse engineer a system. On the one hand this prevents maliciously motivated fiddling but on the other prevents learning by deconstruction and, more insidiously, could accustom people to be less inquisitive.