Z Partners - Weblog

Our ever-increasing dependence on the microchip is enabled, in no small part, by a near-universally held idea about computers: no matter how complex and powerful microprocessors might become, in principle they are always rational, predictable, and 'debug-able' by the engineers who design them. As opposed to the messiness, ambiguity and complexity of the natural world, computers are structured, transparent and orderly - features that also make them trustworthy. We admit them into our lives because we believe (or assume) that we know what they