Do you remember the bit in The Empire Strikes Back where the Millennium Falcon's hyperdrive malfunctions in such an arcane and obtuse way that they need to get C-3PO, *another computer who specialises in interpreting*, just to figure out what's wrong with it
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Han and Chewbacca are stranded in space because they can't read the error messages
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Replying to @qntm
Are you interpreting this as a statement on our society's increasing dependency on technology the majority of us do not understand?
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Replying to @TedHartDavis
Not so much dependence on technology as layers and layers of historical, poorly-understood cruft And also the importance of good error messages
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