If you needed any more evidence that memory safety is the future...

[jmh530 via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 2 March 2017 at 22:25:49 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>
> But again, the elephant in the room is that in the good ole 
> clear-weather days, such an error would at most take out one or 
> two (or a small handful) of related sites; whereas in today's 
> cloudy situation a single error in umbrella services like AWS 
> can mean the outage of thousands or maybe even millions of 
> otherwise-unrelated sites.
>
> And thanks to the frightening notion of the Internet of Things, 
> one day all it will take is a single failure and society would 
> stop functioning altogether.
>

Reminds me of Nassim Taleb's work on black swans and 
antifragility.