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Re: Implications for wearables

It appears as if Dan Ritter <> wrote:
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|This discussion is essentially silly. In the battle between armor and
|warheads, warheads have always won.

If it does not kill my organic parts, it should not kill my cybernetic parts.

If we make our installations survive a near direct hit by (natural) lightning,
it will probably also handle most of the _EM_stuff_ humans will throw at it.
(After all, nukes never were a success in street fights. :-)

|Let's look at what you're concerned about:
|1. loss of function, temporary and permanent
|2. loss of data, temporary and permanent
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|For (1), there's nothing to be done short which fits into the wearable
|size/weight requirements. All we can hope for is that the hardware is either
|insured or cheap (or both).

Consider the solutions used by the U.S. Army for their ``cyber soldiers''.
You might also wish to consider the technology of U.S. police forces.
They will definitely want to solve this problem.

|For (2), the solution is simple. Backup early and often and offsite. E.G.
|do your backups over your wireless link; use a Coda-style filesystem; dump
|complete backups whenever you have a physical proximity to a trusted 
|computer or encrypted high-speed network link to same.
|
|The one sensible idea to come out of this is "leave the computer at home,
|do your work through speech recognition and synthesis over a cellphone".
|How many years away from this are we? My guess is 5ish.

Your advice makes sense for cyborganic systems consisting of low number
of computing nodes (e.g. a human owning one wearable computer).

For cyborganic systems consisting of several computing nodes communicating
in a distributed fashion it makes less sense, as such a system really lacks
an ``off-site'' location.

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