We could think of it like that, but it seems like we're constantly surprised when humans can't run without crashing.
Crashing is often non-recoverable, and not really built into the runbook. Some support teams do triage pretty well, but most... not so much. The tickets build up, and often just get flushed.
Our monitoring infrastructure is built on the assumption of uptime. We ignore the technical debt.
If uptime is the goal, individual humans are impressive compared to almost all human technology.
The Centennial Light has now been running mostly continuously since 1901, while the oldest living human was born in 1904. The bulb hasn't burned out, but has been shut off briefly a few times, which seems comparable to one's heart stopping but being resuscitated.
I'm not aware of any single "technology," in the broadest sense, operating for a longer continuous period of time.
