Fixing a Tiny Corner of the Supply Chain
After reading this story I wonder if we are already into deep, deep trouble. So many things depend on timely production and delivery of complex goods and very often that production depends on a stack of badly written and badly used software operated by underpaid and demotivated staff. How long until we literally cannot improvise a solution anymore? When has the last "process optimization" by some MBA consultant put up so many layers between motivated human beings that a problem is unfixable?<p>Could civilization actually end like this? Not in a big bang but slowly grinding to a halt because no one knows how stuff works besides some nonfunctional web forms?