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Or, in another word, "disposability". We have a lot of systems that aren't repairable, don't get debugged, don't have things fixed mid-flight.

And...it works, with respect to most existing challenges. Restarting and replacing is easy to scale up and produces clear interface boundaries.

One way in which it doesn't work, and which we still fail, is security. Security doesn't appear in most systems as a legible crash or a data loss or corruption, but as an intangible loss of trust, loss of identity, of privacy, of service quality. We don't know who ultimately uses the data we create, and the business response generally is, "why should you care?" The premise of so many of them, ever since we became highly connected, is to find profitable ways of ignoring and taking risks with security and to foster platforms that unilaterally determine one's identity and privileges, ensuring them a position as ultimate gatekeepers.