[ExI] Our Ageing World

[William Flynn Wallace]

(sorry about sending the previous one - I have no idea what key I hit to do
it)

In the past couple decades, western commerce has become entirely dependent
on reliable electronic communications.  Yesterday I got call from a friend
in NY who had to cancel his weekend visit because an airline faced major
delays over computer glitches.  Think about it.  spike

Delta is now having serious troubles with their computers.  Seems they just
asked their software to do more and more.  Question is:  why don't they
spend enough money on new software when their entire business depends on
it?  You can't blame the computers when you don't spend enough to keep them
up to date.

Or maybe they are being hacked by the Chinese or Koreans or Russians or
whomever just to keep in shape for a potential war, and nobody wants to
tell us about it.

 Will hackers win the next war?

bill w

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 1:26 PM, William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> In the past couple decades, western commerce has become entirely dependent
> on reliable electronic communications.  Yesterday I got call from a friend
> in NY who had to cancel his weekend visit because an airline faced major
> delays over computer glitches.  Think about it.  spike
>
> On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 12:18 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On
>> Behalf
>> Of Anders Sandberg
>> Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2016 10:03 AM
>> To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
>> Subject: Re: [ExI] Our Ageing World
>>
>> On 2016-08-14 16:18, BillK wrote:
>> >>... Drones don't win wars. They create more enemies / terrorists than
>> they
>>
>> > destroy. You need (robot) boots on the ground to win wars.
>>
>> >...I used to argue with a classmate who planned to become a military
>> officer that the future was automation, drones and war fought by nerds in
>> front of computer. He disagreed, saying "you will always need a guy with a
>> rifle"...Which leads to a real question for the list: what are the
>> technological requirements for being able to do this remotely? ...--Dr
>> Anders Sandberg
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>> I disagree with Major Westerdahl.  There are plenty of scenarios whereby
>> virtual warfare can be waged without hurling chunks of metal, without any
>> particular type of foot-ware in any particular geographical location.  We
>> are seeing a virtual civil war in the USA apparently being instigated by
>> Russians with no physical presence, no traditional weapons, no particular
>> foot-ware.
>>
>> In the past couple decades, western commerce has become entirely dependent
>> on reliable electronic communications.  Yesterday I got call from a friend
>> in NY who had to cancel his weekend visit because an airline faced major
>> delays over computer glitches.  Think about it.
>>
>> spike
>>
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