The further the majority of people become over socialized, and lose the basic skills needed to provide ones basic needs, the greater the risk that the entirety of our civilization will crumble if key infrastructure fails.

If the power grid failed in our grandparents age, society would be in a much better position to keep itself alive than in today’s society where most people don’t even maintain a garden.

The more complicated the machinery, the fewer people there are who understand every aspect of it. As technology grows in complexity, our technicians understanding grows increasingly abstracted from the underlying architecture.

I won’t be surprised if we see systems designed and diagnosed primarily by machines. This is a very fragile place to be. The loss of top to bottom understanding manifests in bugs that get obfuscated away rather than fixed.

Just think of how much of today’s world is dependent on cloud resources. You see how much of the internet breaks of Google or AWS has an outage. It is only going to get harder to emerge from a catastrophe as we become more dependent on complex technology.