What the Microsoft Outage Reveals
We discover the fragility of our technological infrastructure only when it’s too late.
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We discover the fragility of our technological infrastructure only when it’s too late.
An internet outage exposes the gap between how we think technology might work and how it actually does.
You don’t need to be hacked.
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and other classics by Virginia Lee Burton capture a bias in the way people look at technological innovation.
Why code is so often compared to magic.