On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, KPJ wrote:
> |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.
In this case (depending on how distributed your computing nodes are)
aren't the other computing nodes a backup for any other node? In other
words wouldn't you put some redundancy or use the other nodes to store
data temporarilly such that if something bad happens you can get the data
back from the other nodes, or once your system is back up recover from
your last backup point from the other nodes?
This is assuming there is more then a yard between nodes and any effects
are concentrated enough to knock out only a fraction of the computing
nodes.
-Paul
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