By their nature humans, and i usually count myself as one, tend to be optimistic. Lets face if we were not then as a species we would probably have stayed safely in the trees instead of wandering out onto the open savanah where we were clear lines of site for hungry sabre tooth’s and their ilk.
But obviously some early nerd in the groups said “hey look we can get lots of food out there and it’s sunnier so we can get a tan and hey what can go wrong?”
OK well same applies today with technology and many other things but here are 8 from Wikipedia in the distributed computing arena.
1. The network is reliable.
2. Latency is zero.
3. Bandwidth is infinite.
4. The network is secure.
5. Topology doesn’t change.
6. There is one administrator.
7. Transport cost is zero.
8. The network is homogeneous.