When we talk about tech being old, what it really means in this context is two other things: Its inability to scale to meet new, exploding demand, and dwindling support for legacy systems. "Old" is not always bad. But it is a shorthand for other issues. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/business/airline-meltdowns/index.html
The human element has a huge role to play here.
The FAA knew as early as 2012 it wanted to replace the aging voice switches it uses for air traffic control. But a contracting dispute forced the agency to keep supporting the old tech through *2030* https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/business/airline-meltdowns/index.html
Whenever tech-related disruptions occur, in aviation or otherwise, people always want to know "what is wrong with the tech?"
What I hope you take from this is that there are proximate causes for tech failures, and there are ultimate causes. Don't forget to look at the latter. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/13/business/airline-meltdowns/index.html
Funny the correlation between faulty tech and lack of financial support.
@rrb @b_fung
Each of these aviation failures can be traced back to times when policy decisions were being made by the GOP
Republicans were:
1. In charge & trying to "privatize for profit" for their industry donors
2. Trying to defund the government for wingnut libertarian donors
3. Using financial obstructionism to get tax cuts for their rich donors
4. Using Senate obstructionism to get deregulation for their donors
The GOP halts progress.
Republicans do one thing only, donor maintenance.