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Software event horizon
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The software event horizon is a fictitious event described by Adam N. Rosenberg that satirizes the failure of computer programming since the 1980s - comparing it to the (also fictitious) "" described by Douglas Adams in his book ' . ==The "event horizon"== The supposed software event horizon occurs when programs of ever increasing lower quality try (and subsequently fail) to fill an insatiable appetite for computer programs. "In his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy books, Douglas Adams wrote about Frogstar, a once-thriving planet that had developed an obsession about shoes so they spent more and more of their economy on shoes. As people insisted on more and more footwear, the quality of the shoes declined and they wore out faster so yet more people turned to shoe production. Eventually, the entire economy of the planet was devoted to producing shoes and it still was not enough. The planet reached the shoe event horizon, its economy collapsed entirely, and it became a barren wasteland. We are reaching the software event horizon. Somehow we have employed more and more people to write software of less and less quality to satisfy an insatiable market for computer programs. As these programs perform more poorly than their predecessors, we find ourselves buying upgrades more frequently, and the demand for programmers increases to compensate for their lower effective productivity". Works by Adam Rosenburg * CDMA Capacity and Quality Optimization by Adam N. Rosenberg and Sid Kemp ISBN 0-07-139919-4 See Also
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