A friend of mine sent me this link that talks about the near-term problem (read the next 3-4 years away) of the world reaching Peak Oil. Peak Oil is where we have reached the peak of all oil in the world, soon after the amount of oil being pulled out of the ground will begin to diminish.
You may say "So what, we're moving away from gas as a transportation mechanism". But the problem with that is that most of the alternatives rely on Natural resources like Natural Gas, Coal, etc. that are also very finite. We don't have anything in place that can easily replace gas or finite-resource based fuel easily, inexpensively, or quickly.
For more on this I recommend you check out this site: http://lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/ . Once I started thinking about the problem it truly is frightening, everything we do relies on oil in some way or another (transportation, plastics, food delivery, electricity, etc.).
I recently met two people from here at an IEEE Computer Society conference. I had never heard of them before, but they are funded by a grant from the DOD to improve Software Engineering practice.
Anyways they have come up with what they call Capability Maturity Models for different aspects. One that they have come up with is for software acquisition: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/arm/SA-CMM.ht ml
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A friend of mine sent me this link that talks about the near-term problem (read the next 3-4 years away) of the world reaching Peak Oil. Peak Oil is where we have reached the peak of all oil in the world, soon after the amount of oil being pulled out of the ground will begin to diminish.
You may say "So what, we're moving away from gas as a transportation mechanism". But the problem with that is that most of the alternatives rely on Natural resources like Natural Gas, Coal, etc. that are also very finite. We don't have anything in place that can easily replace gas or finite-resource based fuel easily, inexpensively, or quickly.
For more on this I recommend you check out this site: http://lifeaftertheoilcrash.net/ . Once I started thinking about the problem it truly is frightening, everything we do relies on oil in some way or another (transportation, plastics, food delivery, electricity, etc.).
I recently met two people from here at an IEEE Computer Society conference. I had never heard of them before, but they are funded by a grant from the DOD to improve Software Engineering practice.
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Anyways they have come up with what they call Capability Maturity Models for different aspects. One that they have come up with is for software acquisition:
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/arm/SA-CMM.h