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Nik lives in Essex, UK and works in London as the editor of MacUser magazine. The posts and comments on this site do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions of values of his employers.
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Nik lives in Essex, UK and works in London as the editor of MacUser magazine. The posts and comments on this site do not necessarily reflect the views, opinions of values of his employers.
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I admire Wired magazine for many reasons. One of them, and it’s a biggie, is the no-nonsense writing style that makes even the most technical matters easily digestible.
The new edition opens a piece on the similarities between computer systems and the human immune system with this great paragraph:
The human immune system is a remarkably flexible and adaptive piece of technology. It can defeat familiar pathogens as well as bugs it has never encountered before. It remembers the signatures of previous attackers so it can fight them more effectively in the future. Moreover, it balances protection and performance, stepping up its defences gradually until it confirms an emergency and forces you to bed.
Genius.
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