To me, modern computers, in particular, are an enigma, and I am an electronic engineer specializing in digital systems. Imagine something with 200 billion ind

To me, modern computers, in particular, are an enigma, and I am an electronic engineer specializing in digital systems. Imagine something with 200 billion individual parts with individual functions (and that’s just the cpu) that is presumed to work perfectly flawlessly billions of times a second for a decade. By contrast, the crankshaft on your car goes through a bout 1 billion revolutions before it is worn out. Your heart might beat 4 billion times before you die, if you are really lucky. The precision and reliability we take for granted from modern computing hardware is dumbfounding.