Update same entry from last year, new location. Related to Robert Wright’s essay (above).
From the Cypherpunks Nettime list, yet another essay on the WTC/Pentagon attacks, where the author points out that the APIs and interface abstractions which make life easy also make it dangerous:
As of Tuesday
fly-by-wire is to “terrorists” what Perl is to script-kiddies. Inevitably as technologies enable humans to move more metal and petroleum tubes faster, further and higher with less brain work, less training and less expertise than the day before… well, more potential energy, less brains equals higher risk.
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