The statement: "Computers don't make mistakes, people do" is often used to support the reliability of computer output. Is this statement true? Explain the statement in light of your experiences with computers in the first week of class... think back over some of the experiences you had as you learned to use xhtml...
The statement "computers don't make mistakes, people do" is of course very relevant, after all, it is a man made creation, and therefor susceptible to flaws. the computer relies on the input we provide. If any of that input is incorrect the computer does not (as of yet) have the capacity to recognize and correct those mistakes, Computers are not like our brains, having the benefit of millions of years of evolution behind it. Once the human equation has been removed from computing, that may be when computers run flawlessly. Computers will soon be writing there own code, and proofing it for flaws. All we will need to do is tell it the problem what needs solving. In fact, computers may begin to point out problems that need solving on there own. Also , a computer can be set to just perform and focus on one task, while humans are distracted by our home lives, worries, relationships, health issues, learning disabilities, all sorts of things that interfere with computing tasks. Perhaps when more biology is integrated with the hardware of computers it will undergo an Darwinian evolutionary selection that weeds out the frailties and weaknesses on its own, and that frailty and weakness just may be us!
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