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Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us
Antitechnologists may shudder at the story line, but readers interested in the astounding possibilities of the digital age will be fascinated by Brooks's vision of what is and what will be.
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Physician heal thyself

To some extent many computer systems already monitor their own activity, but there aren't really any operating systems or similar programs out at the moment which *actively* seek to prevent bugs and failures. This means that most computer systems at the moment are quite fragile, and the deletion or corruption of a single file will generally cause a catastrophic failure.

A self-healing computer system would be advantageous in many ways, reducing the need for technical support (I've worked in software for years and often found the quality of technical support - particularly from larger companies - to be dreadful). On the other hand a self-healing OS might be much more difficult to program, since you would in part be battling against the system's own immune response. A comparable biological situation would be doing a heart transplant on a patient, then having to give them suppressive drugs to prevent the organ from being rejected.

- Bob

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Tuesday 16 April, 02:59
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