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> Big Objects was the idea that in the future, basic doing stuff level code would be fully replaced by bought or open source objects that would plug in in standard ways to industry wide interfaces.

We call them microservices now.

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You just keep putting stuff in smaller and smaller Matryoshka dolls and then poof! No more stuff.

From "Mortal Engines" by Stanisław Lem:

> Pyron invented the wire telegraph, and then he pulled the wire out so fine, it wasn't' there, and in this fashion he obtained the wireless...

(https://english.lem.pl/works/novels/mortal-engines/136-intro...)

I always loved that passage and it would always crack me up from the sheer absurdity of it.

Aside from obviously great quote, thanks for reminding me of Stanislaw Lem and Pyron. I grew up reading translations of old Russian books and (I know he was Polish) your comment was a good walk on the memory lane

To be fair, they are a little better than the OG technology.

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