Chapter 22. Troubleshooting Devices
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret of his own anatomy in iron, wood, and leather, to some required function in the work of the world. | ||
--Ralph Waldo Emerson |
Emerson’s concept of a “machine” was decidedly low tech (“iron, wood, and leather”), but his basic idea is still apt in these high-tech times. Man has taken yet another “secret of his own anatomy” (the brain) and used it as the “hint of a new machine” (the computer). And although even the most advanced computer is still ...
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