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The Internet Could Crash - WE NEED A BACKUP PLAN
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[quote:Kirk:MV8yMTcyMzExXzM2NzM3MjEzXzcxRkI0RjBG] [quote:WindyMind:MV8yMTcyMzExXzM2NzM2Nzg4Xzg5OUM4ODQw] It's all connected isn't it. Years ago I almost missed a plane, couldn't check my bags because the internet was down. A computer stops a flight, I don't think so. The computer stops the function to cool fuel rods at a nuclear plant...I don't think so. Does no one know the danger of all these hook ups? I think so.. [/quote] Remember what happened Jan 1, 2000? They took great lengths to tell us it wasn't y2k related, which was pure bull. We were 80% there on some infrastructure failures. For example, we were importing refined gasoline from Mexico. Domestic levels were the lowest since some time in the 60's and population is larger now. All software and time stuff. My biggest fear was someone needing a part at a nuclear reactor and supply wouldn't be able to ship because the database wasn't fixed yet. All those plants are a little bit different from the prior one. [/quote]
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"What we need is a plan B... there is no plan B right now, there's no clear backup system that we very carefully kept to be independent of the internet . . . what we need is something that doesn't necessarily have the performance of the internet . . . this doesn't need to be a multi-billion dollar government project. It's actually relatively simple to do technically because it can use existing fibers that are in the ground, existing wireless infrastructure.
It's basically a matter of deciding to do it.
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THANK YOU, Danny Hillis and TEDTalks FOR PUTTING THIS OUT THERE... THE TRUTH. WE NEED A NEW COMMUNICATIVE MEDIUM.
Thread: Thoughts & Theories: A New Internet
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