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A rather old ted talk now, it goes into software being released like Unity3d which many games are made has settings which are set by the developer's of said games which they do not know the reason's for.

This is compared to the Lycurgus Cup (that changes color depending upon the hot/cold of the contents poured in)...which used purposely made "nano" particles that behave in a character that wouldn't be discovered for another 1 to 2 millennia afterwards.

The ted talk's premise is that rome fell due to over complexity. That at the time just before the collapse the greatest feats of technology where being made like the Lycurgus Cup, then nothing for 2 millennia. He expresses that software will collapse because of the similar tool chain ecosystem of software has the same problems that Rome had.

That software will collapse and the ecosystem to support the software afterwards will not be available due to a cascade of tool collapses.

Edit: found it
Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc)
https://youtu.be/ZSRHeXYDLko