We're surrounded from birth by made things which break and can't repair themselves, so it's not a surprise when yet another made thing can't.
We would all love cars which could repair themselves, but we know that's a fantasy*. It says a lot about how different computers are from our other made objects that we think that maybe they should, that it might be possible for them, if we're clever enough.
*When we make cars into computers, by suffusing them with nanomachines, then they'll be able to repair themselves. But it all hinges on the computers.
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Date: 2008-12-20 02:18 am (UTC)We would all love cars which could repair themselves, but we know that's a fantasy*. It says a lot about how different computers are from our other made objects that we think that maybe they should, that it might be possible for them, if we're clever enough.
*When we make cars into computers, by suffusing them with nanomachines, then they'll be able to repair themselves. But it all hinges on the computers.