Specious tripe. After trudging through that article, I feel as though several thousand neurons died needlessly, for I’ve rarely seen such turgid tripe collected all in one place. It’s like a black hole of vacuity, sucking in the light and energy from the reader.

There’s no beauty to distributed systems–They just work, and they work in the absence of being “set up”. If there’s a system to be made of anything, it will generally self-organize around it, provided the users aren’t complete sociopathic dolts. Granted, it takes a certain mindset and culture, but the end-state of things isn’t generally going to be the Lord of the Flies–Things will eventually self-organize. You may not like how it works, but it will be optimized to local conditions and what the users want out of it.