I have always enjoyed technology... and how it makes life easy for human kind... its applications vast, its limits boundless... but from experience working in the electronics industry and my own personal experience, technology is anything but reliable... from a simple calculator to a high end laptop...
I blame it on the complexity of the system... a rule of thumb, more components/parts a thing is made from the higher the probability of failure... doesn't it make you feel better knowing that for example a motherboard depends on all of its 600 discrete components behaving 'normally' for it to function properly?... consider that when you buy something next time...
Even in terms of design, sytems are getting drasticly smaller and increasingly complex. Complex systems, (e.g - microprocessors) have reached the point where even a fracture of miscalculation, a sliver of unaccuracy, a tad of unsufficient calibration can cause bugs and in worst cases failure. Sometimes, the system can be so complex that debugging it is seemingly more trial and error `black magic' then proper calculated analysis (which of course I admit works too if your lucky! ^^).
It brings a chill down my spine when I know the more money a jack in to buy something electronic, the more complex it is, hence the higher probability it is to fail... and for you digital camera freaks out there.. you think your memorable pics are safe on harddisk and CD's?... HAH.. i laugh at your face... hahahahaha.... well, again I might be wrong, I am of course `digitally paranoid'....
(This article is a lame attempt to actually realize the authors `engineering-self' and is not in reference to any material or source whatsoever. People don't usually take me seriously, why should you start now?...^^)
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