06-01-2016, 10:17 AM
Transmogrification = the process of complete and usually extreme or grotesque change from one state or form to another.
The thought has crossed my mind on occasions too.
My worry is, complex systems, designed to "self detect" faults in parts of those systems, and to then autonomously "shut them down" (ie "graceful degradation") may sometimes get into a state where they get "confused" and the degradation is no longer "graceful", and suddenly "goes off the rails" and the system then "collapses", catastrophically.
Some light reading.
https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceeding...270078.pdf
The thought has crossed my mind on occasions too.
My worry is, complex systems, designed to "self detect" faults in parts of those systems, and to then autonomously "shut them down" (ie "graceful degradation") may sometimes get into a state where they get "confused" and the degradation is no longer "graceful", and suddenly "goes off the rails" and the system then "collapses", catastrophically.
Some light reading.
https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceeding...270078.pdf