Technology's grip on modern life is pushing us down a dimly lit path of digital land mines
society perched on a digital foundation too fragile to withstand a defective software program that was supposed to help protect computers — not crash them.
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The worldwide technology meltdown caused a flawed update installed earlier this month on computers running on Microsoft's dominant Windows software by cybersecurity specialist CrowdStrike was so serious that some affected businesses such as Delta Air Lines were still recovering from it days later.
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«We are utterly dependent on systems that we don't even know exist until they break,» said Paul Saffo, a Silicon Valley forecaster and historian. «We have become a little bit like Blanche DuBois in that scene from 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' where she says, 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.' „
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