• Fargeol@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    In Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), workers have to fine tune a huge machine for hours and when one of them stops, the machine turns into the evil Moloch that eats the workers.

    This seems relevant somehow.

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      I guess it’s always been like that, problem is the more complex and the more we rely on a certain piece of technology the more catastrophic it is when it fails.

      Because it will. Murphy’s law