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19. Conclusion

Dr. Andrew Richard Brown1  
(1)
England, UK
 

If you had a magic button you could press to extend your life, you’d have no hesitation in pressing it.

Similarly, if you had a button to extend not your life but the life of your software systems, you’d have no hesitation in pressing that button, too.

Unfortunately, neither button exists. Nor are they ever likely to.

However, while there is no button to extend your life, lose weight, become a black belt in a martial art, or to banish that debilitating chronic migraine you learned of in the introduction, that does not stop some ...

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