404 errors and blue screens of death are so boring, and even display-memory corruption looks a bit hackneyed. Tech should fail in more evocative ways, with glyphs coming unstuck and plummeting towards the bottom of the screen, burning up from friction as they descend.
@gregeganSF Like i imagined computer viruses as a child, after hearing about the ”Ambulance” virus. The reality was dreadfully boring.