Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The Perils of Technology

2009: A computer model predicts UNC to win the NCAA tournament; UNC actually does win, leading people to hail the new system as foolproof

2010: The computer picks the winner again--Purdue this time--and is proclaimed as utterly infallible

2010: After the computer picks UCLA to win the tournament, all sixty-three other teams drop out rather than face the inevitable failure

2011: Before basketball season even begins, the computer forecasts Illinois as the winner; the season is called off as a result

2012: The season is canceled prematurely; the computer model, bored out of its mind, initiates the nuclear apocalypse and wipes out humanity

Laugh, but it could happen!

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