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We're into decade 6, if you look at the progenitors of software. Banks and airline systems were among the first to invest heavily into computer software, and we're watching them having to pay down their mortgage-sized tech debt. Southwest Airlines has had several ground stops because of software problems. Bank's are notoriously finicky to deal with.

What's would be fascinating is to see from the inside how massive distributed systems like Google operates evolves over a century.



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