by Alan Cooper
In these chapters Mr. Cooper talks about how pretty much anything with a computer in is still subject to the laws that define computers. Computers are extremely logical. They are really good at giving you factual information but that does not always make it correct. Human error coupled with computers can be disastrous as given in the example of the airplane crash. The airplane allowed the pilot to turn right into a 10000 ft. cliff face because that was the direction to the target. Although it was blamed on the pilot, it shouldn't be hard to program terrain into the navigation system of an airplane to warn about these kind of things. Computers are not cognitive. They cannot reason. All they can do is make factual calculations.
Humans are extremely susceptible to routines. Computers help us to make our lives easier but at the same time, we tend to become lackadaisical. We really so much on the computer that we become dependent on them. In the future, cars and planes will probably be flown by computers. We might or might not have back up pilots/drivers just in case the computer screws up. Imagine having a back up pilot fly a plane when he has been dependent on the computer to fly it for however many years. I know i would not be comfortable in that situation. I really do think computers are great i still think there needs to be some kind of manual backup just in case.
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