"At that time and long after, complexity and unreliability were synonymous."
That might be just the beauty of science -- the process of discovery is just the odyssey of making things more and more complicated, with simplicity being the ultimate goal to pursue. Sometimes I wonder why people are so fascinated by technology without even carefully thinking about the consequence of it. Well, maybe living in an era named IT, we don't even have enough time to care about that.
The article describes modern technology in a way as awkward as it could be from people's point of view today. However, I can feel that it is such an innovative piece back to its publishing period. It is just like Douglas Engelbart introducing computer mouse, hypertext and dynamic file linking in 1968 -- those old, clumsily looking designs bring a hell of a new world filled with new media like internet to us, in a shockingly short time.
How the world will be? The best answer seems like: let it be.
