Have you ever gone outside your apartment or house to look at the connectivity – the actual wires leading to your internet, phone and television? It’s chicken wire.
Have you ever been to a typical datacenter housing all this data we like to consume? Mostly chicken wire and not secure.
In this day of security and war on terror and infrastructure taxes, the fragility of our data streams is ironic. (is that the right term? You get my point…)
Few people understand the cobbled together ecosystem.
- HTML was meant to link academic papers together and it is a loose standard (no one follows it) that helps generate trillions of dollars in revenue
- Cable, dsl have no redundancy. If your line is cut, you’re off the grid
- VOIP has little location ability and no power backup, rending 911 and other sensitive operations impossible
- Most websites are single points of failure
- If google is down for 1 minute, no fewer than 100,000,000 queries will go unanswered and websites will lose one million dollars (per minute)
- Viruses are EASY to write and even easier to transfer
- Ipod batteries are not replaceable
- Cellphones work only 90% of the time in the CITY, and even less in rural areas (and these are the future of communication
- Writers striking can shut down a huge amount of content flow and ad dollars
- And so on…
The question is… so what? It all seems to work. I will follow up with how this very fragility MAKES it all work even better.
Good Morning.
~Russ
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