Cascade Failure.
The article discusses problems caused by specialization and obsolescence in technology. The author uses the concept of cascade failure, in which one technology failure triggers a series of increasingly large consequent failures, to illustrate the potential effects of small changes to a product or ma...
| Publicado en: | Communications of the ACM Vol. 58; no. 5; pp. 7 - 8 |
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Association for Computing Machinery
May2015
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| Sumario: | The article discusses problems caused by specialization and obsolescence in technology. The author uses the concept of cascade failure, in which one technology failure triggers a series of increasingly large consequent failures, to illustrate the potential effects of small changes to a product or market. Topics discussed include batteries for hearing aids, ink cartridges for printers, and specialized format devices such as DVD and CD-ROM disks. |
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