Are Your Bits Flipped?

16. Keeping Your Bits from Being Flipped

It’s all ones and zeroes, baby. You just have to know which are which.

Whether a misconception is due to a lack of information or experience, or a simple misunderstanding—the proverbial flipped bit—we all have a tendency to acquire and hold onto mistaken ideas about technology. I hope the foregoing chapters have cleared up some of them, but the question remains: how can you prevent further misconceptions from taking hold?

I wish I could immunize you against future bit-flipping, but that’s beyond my power. However, I can offer some advice, based on decades of experience, that should help most people form ...