This has always been obvious to anyone who spent the smallest amount of time working in consumer retail. Customer comes in and wants to buy a patio set they saw in the catalog. You check the database - says there are two in the back. You go to the back. You look for like ten minutes. Patio set is nowhere to be found. Customer has left in frustration by the time you return.
The hard problem has never been the specific form of database used to store info about the real world. The hard problem has always - and will always - be enforcing the correspondence between what's in the database and what's in the real world. This problem couldn't be solved at a single store in a single fairly small city. It's not gonna be solved worldwide.
The hard problem has never been the specific form of database used to store info about the real world. The hard problem has always - and will always - be enforcing the correspondence between what's in the database and what's in the real world. This problem couldn't be solved at a single store in a single fairly small city. It's not gonna be solved worldwide.