The Machine Is Not Broken

In systems engineering there is a concept called POSIWID, an acronym for "the purpose of a system is what it does." It means a system is never wrong; a system always does what it was designed to do. It may not be the result you wanted or expected, but it is the one it knows how to produce. If you program a calculator app and when you ask it to calculate 2 + 2 it gives you 5, the app is not…