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The closest analogy in technology would be the Internet, IMO. A CPU or a single computer is still a fairly homogeneous, consistent creation. Sure, it has a lo
by saalweachter 8y ago
The closest analogy in technology would be the Internet, IMO.
A CPU or a single computer is still a fairly homogeneous, consistent creation. Sure, it has a lot of transistors, but it's just the same pattern over and over.
Think about the Internet: many of the billions of things on the internet are similar enough to be called the same, but many of them are ... a little not. This computer is Intel, this is AMD. This one runs Microsoft, this one Ubuntu. This one Ubuntu 15.07 with a 5.3.2.2 Linux kernel, that one with a 5.3.7.1 kernel. This part uses IPv4, that IPv6. This HTML on this site is a little nonstandard, that one relies on an expired SSL certificate.
The body, and modifying it, is a lot like the Internet. You set up 1.1.1.1 as a DNS server and accidentally partition the Internet.