Don't these people understand logic?

摘要

As engineers and designers, we are so used to dealing with irrefutable logic in our designs—via innumerable Boolean gates and precise, repeatable software—that we sometimes assume that such logical reasoning extends to the rest of the world. This point became clear to me as I read a pair of Wall Street Journal articles detailing why two perfectly sensible Internet-based concepts fell apart (references 1 and 2).