Running on Empty
Channel: churchofstfu
Date: 14/08/2011

Apologies for it being both too long and a little quiet volume-wise.

The problem is that system performance doesn't always decrease in a nice and neat fashion (which would be needed for an unregulated system to efficiently deal with the required change in strategy). 

Rather, sometimes overload and resulting failure can have catastrophic effects and knock-on effects that will take tremendous effort to address. 

In my opinion, we're setting ourselves up for a hard fall. Probably not tomorrow, maybe not the day after, but soon enough. 
Last time a civilization that had wiped out all local competition collapsed from a lethal overdose of its own hubris (aka Rome), we got the dark ages.