I have acutally kicked this idea around 4 or 5 years ago of A "WSW" but more so in a sense that modularity would have been the groundworks for such a revolution.
Modularity. Modules, taking the scale of what cpus on the phones have to what the cpus in the late 90's till now had... interoperability... it is just not there yet. Infact it stagnated.
Reminds me a job I had early on in life working under several intelligent people but unknowningly replacing 3.
Out of the 3 the 1st pushed me and encouraged me to move on when we debated who should stay, the 2nd was a surprise because I asked her why she was training me but sadly it was then I learned of her animosity toward me and her 30 years on payroll.
Which brings me to the last person I was replacing - the data scientist, the man that verfied my numbers and surely was verifying a lot of other things.
so having the guilt of the first two I happened to have a situation outside of my control land in my lap, I left the company immediately, positive they kept him onboard for atleast another 6 months to a year.
great experience nonetheless.
tldr: cost reduction hire, had to be vetted 1st - split before my conscience weighed too heavy.
to expand on my reasoning, go to the root of the problem - the article doesn't lay blame to Lowell, Mass it goes _all_ the way back to 1974? or 76? something that happened in the 70's yet here we are in the 21st century in lowell mass blaming some shit that happened in cambodia in the mid late 70's?
confusion is the root of the problem, either remove the offending host and do it all in house or move yourself within the root of the problem and continue conducting business.
he could bounce off another provider/server so he can still maintain what he is doing now - he just has not explored any other solution except blaming. the arguement "it should just work" is not vaild if you are reliant on another service.
Once upon a time writers actually took the time to investigate their "tools", like flying to Hawaii and sitting down with a psychologist in a small cafe and going over the numbers if you must.
Not everyone is in a New York state of mind. Once you Once Upon a time it speaks to narrowness.
1: email is hosted offsite, yet reliant on Google/Gmail to do in house work/intermail.
2: when you are reliant on an external source to solve a problem within your own house you are not prepared.
3: solution: reduce reliance or point of failure by either bringing it all in house and forwarding the remains or bring root to the source and source from root and use mask and forwarding.
It's a great recruiting tool. Plus the possibilities of how it will scale for projects like robotics/fiber/wifi etc... who wouldnt want an inside track like that?
I wasn't speaking to that, it is of your interest as a parent to 'invest' into your child, be it time, knowledge etc... (honestly I never come here to read the articles, I touch the headline and gauge the article by its comments, so I 'maybe' offbase when declaring what I think.)
Regardless, you know as well as me - once you walk down that path no one knows it better then yourself.