What the Microsoft Outage Reveals
We discover the fragility of our technological infrastructure only when it’s too late.
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Illustration by The Atlantic Everything Is Overcomplicated
An internet outage exposes the gap between how we think technology might work and how it actually does.
Damien Meyer / AFP / Getty The Human Body Is Too Complex for Easy Fixes
You don’t need to be hacked.
Pictures Ltd. / Corbis / Getty Lessons About the iPhone, Courtesy of a Depression-Era Children's Book
Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel and other classics by Virginia Lee Burton capture a bias in the way people look at technological innovation.
Wikimedia Commons What Kind of Sorcery Is This?
Why code is so often compared to magic.
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