The Societal Cost of Computer Science | Contraposition
▻http://contraposition.org/blog/2014/10/29/the-societal-cost-of-computer-science
There’s obviously a dark side to both #abstraction and #indirection, and it’s been written about a lot, but I think it hasn’t been recognized as such. That is, the systems that employ abstraction bother us at a gut level (...) but it’s not often recognized that at its root it’s just abstraction gone awry. The same goes for indirection. Cloud computing is a good example of the use of the two systems ideas together — your data is held in some abstract conception of a data storage system — the cloud — and you don’t even communicate with the cloud servers directly but rather through a labyrinth of intermediate systems and layers all with a friendly face on them.
#informatique pour @thibnton