i was ranting some time ago about slowness in which IT industry is moving from silicon to light, to speed up not only transport of information (we already do that by means of GBIC/SFP/SFP+ modules), but also processing of traffic. there are already means to do exactly that, and we as Cisco are working on delivering such features in next years. i just stumbled upon this article, which deals with doing similar thing but with machine learning - this quote is stunning:...
it’s interesting to see proposal submitted by two “freedom stars” of authoritarian China - Huawei and China Telecom to ITU. on the surface the proposal clearly speaks about future societal needs and development of new, improved technologies that - in the process - would make current IP obsolete. it’s easy to see however that first of all the proposal contains a lot of old ideas that are already implemented (LISP, mobile IP and IPv6 itself just to name a few)....
it seems that F-35 can’t end it’s failure series. despite GAO audits, model of building military equipment for biggest army in the world didn’t change a bit since end of second world war. they’re still ordering and building things that will bring maximum revenue to military vendors and not what military customers actually need. i immediately got back to one of the articles i’ve read recently in ACM Queue - responsive enterprise: embracing the hacker way....
in 2002 it was calculated that to reach closest star (Proxima Centauri), multigenerational crew would need to start with at least 150 to 180 men and women. latest simulations show however, that to guarantee gen variance you’d need to take between 10000 and 40000 people onboard. it would be interesting to see how those plans will end up - we will stay on Earth until Sun burns out, we’ll kill each other or maybe we’ll start finally intergalactic travels?...
…it’s already past (it’s quote from famous polish comedy - Boys don’t cry). you can get much better than that. you simply ‘restart whole internet using secret team of key bearers’: Cards you see are keys to global internetwork. There are seven of them and may be used to restart internet in the event of Earth-shattering cataclysm. Yes, we have to be prepared for anything. In the event of global outage, DNSSEC system would be damaged....