Link of the Week (as opposed to the Weakest Link)
William Langewiesche, Vanity Fair, The Devil at 37,000 Feet, about a 2006 airplane collision over the Amazon jungle:
[The pilots] were operating an inherently simple jet that had been stuffed with electronic capabilities. … driven [in part] by the technical possibilities offered to overly enthusiastic designers and engineers. The problem for pilots is the idiosyncratic architecture of the systems that are created, the need to fathom the logic that has been applied, and the reliance on manuals laced with invented terminology to which practitioners are expected to submit their minds.” [Emphasis added.]
Describes any new technology, doesn’t it? Full story »
