Fall; or, Dodge in Hell

by Neal Stephenson

“In the cloud” had been the buzzword for it when it was a new idea, but merely to use the term nowadays was to date yourself.

You either paused to consult all of the stakeholders and think through all of the possible consequences—in which case you’d certainly end up doing nothing at all, since complex systems had consequences that were infinite and imponderable—or you just went for it and pressed the Enter key.)