Here’s another angle that complements yours. Assume you have lots of money, either as a gov org or as a tech company and you want to hire great staff. What’ll you do when engineers do not want to work with openEHR because it is such a big divergence from the safe career path? This is happening to us at all levels of hiring. Technical staff keep an eye on where they’re going from a tech-stack perspective, and they want to make sure what they’ll be working on will improve their prospects in the …
Tower of Babel (M. C. Escher)
Tower of Babel is a 1928 woodcut by M. C. Escher. It depicts the Tower of Babel, a biblical story about people attempting to build a tower to reach God, which is found in Genesis 11:9. Although Escher dismissed his works before 1935 as of little or no value as they were "for the most part merely practice exercises," some of them, including the Tower of Babel, chart the development of his interest in perspective and unusual viewpoints that would become the hallmarks of his later, more famous, w In...
In similar vein, this Escher version of the Tower of Babel is quite evocative of the stacks of Babel (babble? !) that become entrenched in shaky computational edifices. Best not to get too philosophical, here, but it is sometimes salutary to remind ourselves that limitations of languages are ages old, and are amplified, often out of sight, in the complexities of computational languages today.