Excuse me, I need to reboot my taxi...

Technology Review: When Rebooting is Not an Option. Q&A: MIT computer scientist Larry Rudolph. This solution has worked so far. But very soon it's not going to work for, say, devices in our houses. It won't be clear what to reboot. The vision of Oxygen is that there's no PC that is the center, there's no central server to which everything is connected. [Tomalak's Realm]

In the mad dash to develop and market new technology some things have been left by the wayside. The most important is reliability. There was a saying from back in the bad old days of mainframes, "If builders built houses the way programmers write software, the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization." Serious work needs to be done on providing reliable operating systems (neither Windows or OS X qualifies yet) and training programmers to design fault tolerant code.
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