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Musings

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Rik Farrow

While musing, I like to wonder what it would be like to live in a world without buggy software. That is, a world very unlike the one we live in. As I write this, Boeing's 737 MAX plane has been grounded, apparently because buggy software and not documenting its possible dangerous effects have killed over 300 people in two separate crashes. Businesses and home users regularly have their data encrypted by criminals demanding ransom. And whole countries are in turmoil via careful manipulation of opinion via social media.

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Summer 2019, Vol. 44, No. 2
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