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The Software Crisis

In 1968, at the first NATO Software Engineering conference, the term "software crisis" was coined. These conferences were pivotal moments in computing history, as they were some of the first efforts to pin down and codify the current practices in programming automatic computing machines.

As we learn how to utilize our resources more efficiently, we hit a point where the current restrictions cannot be bypassed, necessitating a hardware upgrade. That hunger for ability was slow to grow before the advent of commercialization of personal computing, but companies selling equipment don't make money waiting for their users to master their products. The wider software industry accelerated its release cycles and capital influence, bringing about the proverbial death of the individual developer.

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