Here is very good article that sheds light current trends that should be of increasing concern. In the past I have described this internally as the "Web of Distrust and Fallability" which has been sold to the unsuspecting public as a "Web of Trust and Infallability"
Source: BusinessWeek Online .
"A huge chunk of the electricity grid fails. The Internet clogs up, and PCs crash. The space shuttle falls to the earth. Complex high-tech systems everywhere appear to be failing, and our society feels increasingly threatened. What is going on? Have we built a high-tech society that is doomed to crash and burn again and again? Can we fix it?"
Read on.