Prokon 3.0 -
It wasn't a normal error. It was a deep, arterial crimson. A single line of text appeared, typed in a stark, serif font: PROPOSED REMEDY: DEMOLISH FLOORS 45 THROUGH 49. REBAR DENSITY INSUFFICIENT. ALTERNATIVE: CHANGE SOIL BEARING CAPACITY CLASSIFICATION AT NODE A-1. Thabo stared. Demolish four floors? That was fifty million Rand. Change the soil classification? That was fraud.
Some truths, he decided, were too heavy for a computer to carry. Some failures are better left un-remembered. And some software, no matter how brilliant, should never learn to see the future. prokon 3.0
Then the screen flashed red.
