All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines

October 26th, 2013

Via: The Atlantic:

We rely on computers to fly our planes, find our cancers, design our buildings, audit our businesses. That’s all well and good. But what happens when the computer fails?

Posted in Rise of the Machines, Social Engineering, Technology | Top Of Page

One Response to “All Can Be Lost: The Risk of Putting Our Knowledge in the Hands of Machines”

  1. steve holmes says:
    October 26, 2013 at 9:18 pm

    Over dependence on computers has left pilots unable to quickly react to dynamic situations where they have to suddenly release the autopilot and take control of an aircraft with sudden major problems. Pilots are tending to follow their training book which leaves the computers in charge of flight controls instead of flying the airplane themselves. This is what happened in the recent crash at SFO and the crash mid-atlantic a few years ago that was attributed to ice clogging the pitot tube. A $2 billion B2 bomber crashed on Guam due to pilots trusting computers that got erroneous air speed data because of condensation in the pitot tubes.

    On the other hand, why wasn’t Fukushima computerized to fully and automattically shut down the instant the ground started to shake? Or was it?

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