regarding the purported need for analog controls, and whether we need software...I came to think of lead software engineer Margaret Hamilton, and the code she wrote for Apollo 11, and a picture of it on a stack of paper as tall as her...the code which basically saved the moon landing by recovering from a malfunction:
https://medium.com/@verne/margaret-h...n-7d550c73d3fa among other things, she also coined the term "software engineering" (it was treated more like an esoteric art previously, which it isnt)
computers and aircraft seem to be a combination that scares a lot of people (the impression is that bugs and "hackers" are everywhere), but I think it's a really cool combination, and the rare glitches such as this potential thing here havent really caused any accidents yet, have they? on the contrary, software prevents accidents every day
