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from Part III - Our Story on Earth
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2023
As humans we are confronted with devices which are supposed to work and often do not. Just think of all the domestic appliances you have at home. Do all of them work? I am sure that you can remember the time when the toaster gave up the ghost or the torch in the garden shed did not work. We have a notion of device and we have an expectation that it will work. But when we say a device does not work, what do we mean? Generally, we mean that it does not perform the function we expect of it. If you put sliced bread into the toaster and press down the lever at the side and nothing happens you utter a sigh of frustration because the device is not working.
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