Oh yeah we are fucked. A lot of the tech from yesteryear, the current generation has no clue how to maintain, replicate or upgrade.
The US has many Minutemen nukes that they have no clue how to upgrade to make them usable. We see how this shit has made airline travel worse and you just have to remember shit like the Costa concordia to realise ships aren't safe either.
People have skated FAR TOO long of the back of the ones competently doing the work and now that most have retired, been driven out or just worked to an early grave, their lazy ass is now holding all the work..
Oh yeah we are fucked. A lot of the tech from yesteryear, the current generation has no clue how to maintain, replicate or upgrade.
The US has many Minutemen nukes that they have no clue how to upgrade to make them usable. We see how this shit has made airline travel worse and you just have to remember shit like the Costa concordia to realise ships aren't safe either.
People have skated FAR TOO long of the back of the ones competently doing the work and now that most have retired, been driven out or just worked to an early grave, their lazy ass is now holding all the work..
I would argue this is why there is the push for "AI", when really it's just data scraping the past folks who knew what they were doing.
The thought by the technocrat trans humanists is they can just replace the lost functions and knowledge with their silicon god.
In before they make a Skynet that eliminates humanity as fuck being the left/globalists serf bitch...
I'm only semi joking, the risk of AI is not it being made but WHERE it is being made as it'll inhabit the ideas and morality of that place.
If a California or East coast AI surpasses all others, we're fucked. Texas, midwest, Japan or Taiwanese we're ok. Chinese and we have a new Overlord.
AI having coded positive opinions of Abortion is already done.
AI is a weapon, as such, decentralization is going to be the likely answer. You will have your own AI, you won't be subservient to another.