pervasion

Evidently it predates that letter, but its pervasion in computing blog posts and such is probably due to the relation to Dijkstra's article/letter.

Here is some hard data on this mentality and its pervasion of politics, media, entertainment, -- an obvious social engineering effort to anyone paying attention over the last 10-15 years.

There are some big players with an interest in facilitating the pervasion of AI, sure, but as far as I can tell there are are least as many big players who stand to lose from the widespread erosion of intellectual property rights that comes with it.

Granted, I live in a country that is 10 years behind compared to the US in terms of technical pervasion, but I don't think I know anyone who uses their phone to remotely check on their homes or work.

> Was it Pareto or Orwell or someone else who had claimed that every organisation eventually develops an informal inner circle the pervasion of this thought-killer amongst x-percenters makes me indignantly curious about what stuff the actual inner-circlers actually spend their supposedly limited attention on..

It is a pervasion of the concept of "Links".

It is a pervasion of the concept of "Links".