# 100 years of whatever this will be - apenwarr

<https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211201>

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- Saved: December 5, 2021 (2021-12-06T03:39:24Z)
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## What Jamie wrote

What if today's tech trends hold true for a long time…

> **Regulation is a centralized function.**
> 
> The job of regulation is to stop distributed systems from going awry.
> 
> Because distributed systems always go awry.

Through the financial crisis and banking we've become used to the term "Too big to fail."

I've been wondering lately, when does "Too big to fail" become a thing for technology. Maybe we are already there.

## Facts

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## Appears in

- [WT207: Weekly Thing #207 / Architecture, Contrarian, Storytelling](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/207/), Notable

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