Persistence of ZOZ memories - page 4

There are a huge set of considerations that are upended when we move to true permanence in computing. Here's Alan Kay from a 2010 talk, speaking about the future network:

   "It's gonna have ten or maybe as many as one hundred billion nodes on the thing,
   it's gonna be self-balancing, you have to be able to change everything in it
   while its running cause we don't get to stop it, it has to be like biology.
   Most engineers just check out there."

The future ZOZ is like an organism. We can't just cut out a pancreas and splice in another while the patient bleeds to death. To change any one part, the entire system has to be kept running while we do this. In the ZOZ of the future, we must be able to update data, make errors, fix them, put out bad software, fix it, update it, all without disrupting all the things around it.

I don't have any good answers, just questions. But I haven't "checked out".

We must start addressing true permanence immediately. It will so dramatically affect the way we do things that to start out using the current paradigm and then hope we can gradually shift into a new paradigm may not be a wise plan.