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| Authored by: mrisch on Monday, June 11 2012 @ 05:26 PM EDT |
By this reasoning turning on the headlights in a
car turns it into
a new machine. Just like flipping switches
to turn on the headlights and turn
off four wheel drive, all
software is just the flipping of switches (i.e. the
bits in
memory). In older mainframes, a human would physically flip
these
switches. Now days, the switches are electronic and
are set electronically.
No - programming the ability to flip the lights or
not is
the new machine. You have a car with the possibility
of headlights and a car
without the possibility of
headlights.
I'm not saying that the button to turn
off the cell phone
creates something new - I'm saying that replacing the
software to hide that functionality altogether might create
something new as a
practical matter.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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