The world would be thrown into a complete state of chaos that would have our current economic woes seem paltry in comparison. Interestingly enough there was a small sample given the other day when the entire Toronto Stock Exchange was closed due to a computer glitch. No information actually lost just the flow of it disrupted. It had me stop to wonder if perhaps the CEO’s and top managers of the banks should be replaced with computers for they seem to have continued to be shut down for weeks despite reportedly having been repaired:-)
7:02 AM, December 19, 2008
andy.s said...
(1) All records of your speeding tickets would be erased. (2) So would the records of your retirement account.
It would expose a curious symmetry in a dysfunctional society. Destroy all electronic records and First World civilization collapses for losing its assets. Maintain it and First World civilization collapses for retaining its debts.
Social engineering then prescribes a remedy: destroy half the data. (Nobody touches my Blackadder collection.)
"What if... #19"
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The world would be thrown into a complete state of chaos that would have our current economic woes seem paltry in comparison. Interestingly enough there was a small sample given the other day when the entire Toronto Stock Exchange was closed due to a computer glitch. No information actually lost just the flow of it disrupted. It had me stop to wonder if perhaps the CEO’s and top managers of the banks should be replaced with computers for they seem to have continued to be shut down for weeks despite reportedly having been repaired:-)
7:02 AM, December 19, 2008
(1) All records of your speeding tickets would be erased.
(2) So would the records of your retirement account.
11:02 AM, December 19, 2008
Bee,
Do you notice anything wrong with your comment section?
Best,
12:30 PM, December 19, 2008
It would expose a curious symmetry in a dysfunctional society. Destroy all electronic records and First World civilization collapses for losing its assets. Maintain it and First World civilization collapses for retaining its debts.
Social engineering then prescribes a remedy: destroy half the data. (Nobody touches my Blackadder collection.)
12:32 PM, December 19, 2008
Hey Uncle Al,
If you don't have the "right history" and retain it, you get cancelled and have to do it all over again.:) To remember:Eskesthai
Best,
1:15 PM, December 19, 2008
This blog and this comment would also cease to exist.
2:22 PM, December 19, 2008
Unless you click on print right now...
2:23 PM, December 19, 2008
There is something seriously odd with the recent comment's applet...
2:27 PM, December 19, 2008
correction, it is not the applet, it is the comment feed - it just ends last year august. Anybody has an explanation for that?
2:28 PM, December 19, 2008
It seems other people have the same problem, so probably a blogger-bug.
2:36 PM, December 19, 2008
There would be something wrong with electrons (also in our brains?). Golden age for optical storage devices and research in photonic circuitry!
4:28 PM, December 19, 2008
Maybe your blog feed is not protected, unless it is behind the Firefox Browser like mine?
:)
5:36 PM, December 19, 2008
your blog will have to take a break while microsoft re-writes windows xp from scratch :-)
6:17 PM, December 19, 2008
It would be terrible to lose all of our electronic data. As Phil said it would be complete chaos.
12:55 PM, December 20, 2008
Stanislav Lem wrote a funny story starting with a similar scenario.
11:53 AM, December 21, 2008
i'm afraid there will be a chaos :-(
6:54 PM, January 12, 2009