Technology a Two Edged Sword

[Steve R.]

Technology is a major aspect supporting our standard of living, but there is a downside if it fails.

San Francisco power outage puts 130,000 in the dark, as self-driving car service stops vehicles in the street

Massive power outage hits San Francisco, leaving 130,000 without electricity and self-driving cars stalled in streets across the city on Saturday.

www.foxnews.com

For those with a dark sense of humor:

Autonomous vehicles stalled in the middle of streets, reportedly unable to detect down traffic lights, triggering traffic jams across affected areas.

There is a lesson to be learned from every technological failure. H'mm what would happen should someone (accidentally or maliciously) pull the virtual power "plug" to the bitcoin servers?

We may think that technology will protect us, but Nature is not amiable: "If anything can go wrong, it will." (Murphy's Laws). Futurama's Fry finds-out that "backups" do fail.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

Just as a side note, you (like many others before you) have incompletely quoted Murphy's Law.

"If something CAN go wrong, it WILL go wrong... Therefore build it so it CAN'T go wrong."

Ed Murphy is essentially the "father of odd-shaped, molded power and data connectors" that can only be connected in one way.