Thursday, September 11, 2008

Fear of the complex system around us.


As we move forward along the 21st century the image that the system we all live with is a fragile and complex as a rain forest comes to mind.Each computer linked to another like small flowers on the forest floor.The Internet like the root system covering everything and richly laid down.


But all very variable to outside stress and damage .Like the gentle floor of the forest with the water slowly raining down keeping the life cycles going the Internet and the computer world is kept alive with the buzz of electricity.The hum of the the unseen power that is easily taken from us with a power cut or generation failure.


Then we are plunged into darkness with all the electrical equipment not working and the down fall of the modern infrastructure collapse.
But if we dont forget the basics then we could still rebuild our world again.

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