Re: [luv-talk] Why is there a protest over the East West Link?

Russell Coker wrote:

Generally courses don't teach about their failings. I've never heard of a CS course teaching about how bad computer projects made things worse than the manual systems they replaced.

The Therac-25 replaced hardware interlocks with software ones. It's a standard case study in CS. Plus all the shitty software that the uni forces you to use, like blackboard and echo360 -- those do an EXCELLENT job of convincing you that software makes the world worse :-P