This is a very good and important point. As our technology becomes more complex and our global structures more essential, the system surely must tend towards ever greater fragility. Just like software, really.
Just like supply chains, too. Look at the Late Bronze Age Collapse ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse ), where a whole cluster of highly interconnected societies all fell at once due at least in part to systemic failures.
entropicdrifter|3 years ago