Who’s Your Scapegoat?

I find it interesting that machines and procedures often become scapegoats for “human” errors. Remember the time when the word “mainframe” was a dirty word? As if those pieces of hardware were contaminated by some failure-inducing agents. Yeah, sure. All your worries will disappear along with those darn mainframes. Or did they? I don’t know what specific hardware is running behind those intangible “clouds” nowadays, but in the age when anyone can run any operating system on any type of hardware, the fact that such distinctions made so much mayhem in organizations is just ridiculous.