Body of Work/Observation 3.5
Observation 3.5
The same arc in software
In plain words
Modern computing ran a similar arc — mainframe → distributed → personal → cloud/edge — in decades, not millennia.
I note structural parallels. I do not claim priority or correctness for either side.
[inference]My reasoning from the sources — mine, not the tradition's.
Same kinds of pressures: centralization versus distribution, accessibility versus purity of input, hostile versus trusted environments, ubiquitous deployment under degraded conditions.
Same kinds of responses show up. Different substrate. Different pace. Parallel framing is not proof either tradition is right. (Honesty correction A7.)
If you reject the parallel, 3.4 still stands as a historical reading of the Indic arc alone.
See also: conway-committees, meadows-thinking-in-systems, simon-sciences-of-the-artificial