People Make Poor Monitors for Computers at Macroeconomic Resilience
Apr-08 2012 / 22:26 EDT

People Make Poor Monitors for Computers via @zite:

In the early hours of June 1st 2009, Air France Flight 447 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean. Till the black boxes of AF447 were recovered in April 2011, the exact circumstances of the crash remained a mystery. The most widely accepted explanation for the disaster attributes a large part of the blame to human error when faced with a partial but not fatal systems failure. Yet a small but vocal faction blames the disaster and others like it on the increasingly automated nature of modern passenger ai...