[LINK] reliance on automatic technology settings

[Jan Whitaker]

Sometimes we talk about the dangers associated with reliance on 
automated technology. Cars that drive themselves and even parallel 
park themselves, automatic updates of software, even thermostats, 
which is a much more simple technology. Set and forget. We are sold 
this on a daily basis. Here's a story where that sort of design and 
human interface can go terribly wrong if the human brain is not 
simultaneously engaged.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/san-francisco-plane-crash_n_3569670.html

The bit that got me was mention of the dozens of crashes resulting 
from this very same setting as on the San Francisco plane.

Jan


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or 
sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
~Madeline L'Engle, writer

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