What causes computerized technology to screw up so often (glitches, freezes, shutdowns) if its all based on calculations?
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Computers do what you tell them to do, not what you want them to do. Technically they just do the computations, but if they do the wrong ones or if they’re in the wrong order, bad stuff happens.
Humans are the ones that tell computers to do and humans aren’t perfect. The things we expect computers to do are more and more complicated and rely on coordination with lots of other people. Any mistake or miscommunication results in computations about the wrong thing or with wrong information.
At some point, the wrong information causes errors. The computer might have instructions to do something that can’t be done with its own resources, or it might be told to do something that leads it into an infinite loop, or it might run into a scenario it doesn’t have instructions for.
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