Greg Egan404 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.
SaturniusMons 
@gregeganSF We need more explosions and horrible painful death!
❄️❄️❄️@SaturniusMons @gregeganSF yes, when one of the students accidentally re-invents the fork-bomb on the HPC cluster it should involve the fire department, not just an automated scheduler pausing the run queue.
Tom Isaacson