I don't thin "physical" devices have fewer points of failure than software... it's just that our intuition is used to lumping thinks together (like zillions of

I don't thin "physical" devices have fewer points of failure than software... it's just that our intuition is used to lumping thinks together (like zillions of types of cracks are all "just cracks" unless you're a specialist in the field...), maybe we have less well formed intuitions about software failure. ...but do you really think an analog device doesn't have MUCH MORE ways in which it can fail than a piece of software? ...I mean, just think that software has a "limited" number of states it can be in ...whereas for a "lump of atoms" you need an overly simplified model just to start counting some sort of states for the smallest components