Just read some news about critical securityflaws that affects the bulk of todays computers that got me thinking...I see two trends regarding development of new technology...faster (meaning the speed of development) and increasing complexity. Increasing complexity means increasing potential for unforseen bugs/flaws/errors (like the ones in the article)...and a rushed tempo worsen the situation even more. Why the stress? I'm not a total luddite...I can see the benefits with using a computer for stuff like writing, using email, communicating via internet...(but we have been able to do that for 20+ years) and I can see the benefits with a cellphone compared with a landline... and I think SMS is a really useful "invention"...(but same here, we have been able to do this for 20+ years)...Seems to me that the last time there was any real useful progress regarding technology was when the smartphone was invented...(10 years ago)...since then it seems that so much of the rushed development in technology is not about generating any truly useful functions...it's more about increasing performance without any clear goal (and the increase in hardwareperformance tends to get eaten up by bulkier, more resourcedemanding software)...so why the stress? What are we hunting after (or what is it that we run from?) that pushes us to run faster and faster all the time? (The risk of stumbling/falling just increases the faster we run...) Link to the article that started this little rant: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/01/meltdown-and-spectre-every-modern-processor-has-unfixable-security-flaws/
Submitted March 03, 2018 at 01:24PM by goodcomic______ http://ift.tt/2FkHfUQ
