I am the type of guy who believes our jump to the next level as the human species can only happen if we (maybe a few hundred years in the making) treat every aspect of technology as high-integrity and mission critical.

It’s not a secret that security breaks down, not at the strongest points, at the weakest so even software that seems to have nothing to do with DOD, NSA, NASA, Banks or commercial avionics can allow these types of systems to be breached.

Also aside from security threats there is just the need to become more parallel. To put ever more processors and tasks crunching away in servers, workstations and even laptops.

Therefore high-integrity software is the only way to feasibly continue growth. Systems may have to run for decades ( hot swap software and hardware) without shutting down and we can not return to the days of vacuum tubes burning out faster than the maintainers can replace them. Therefore high-quality long lasting hardware and software is the only way to move forward lest we just run in place with the old vacuum tube way of maintaining systems.

- Mourice Kadmos-Minyai