I am 50% through… it is *very* male. It's still interesting, and the layout is pretty, but the lack of maintenance and care by women is hard to overlook. Also notable is that Brand has managed to write this whole book seemingly without interacting with any of the academic literature on maintenance.

evergreen

Ensmenger, N. L., & Wilkes, M. V. (2016). When Good Software Goes Bad: The Surprising Durability of an Ephemeral Technology.
homes.luddy.indiana.edu/nensmeng/fil...

Btw, SAAS was developed as the solution to the maintenance crisis of the 50s–70s because in the early days every company ended up writing their own code which unsurprisingly was a huge mess no one wanted to deal with.

The Verge's coverage is currently split between the reporting on people fighting for each other, while another group at the other end of the country indulges in increasingly baroque works of technological fantasy.

The only thing I am left wondering here is why a robot arm? Why not a vending machine? Or any of the other thousands of already fully automated ways of making coffee drinks?

I am wondering how much this is about performing automation, making it futuristic and explicitly visible…

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