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Professor | January 20, 2009 at 06:49 am
Deadly Embrace or handshake is rather an old computer expression in which two digital devices communicating become “locked” in that one device will not entrust particular data to the other until that device receives a computational result dependant upon that withheld data!.
Our World has changed dramatically from the time of the Great Industrial Revolution, when mankind “toiled” to produce the physical infrastructure that we have today, to one of a Technological Digital Age in which 0’s and 1’s are now attributable to most things such as Design Data feeding Robots to Automate Industry, to device operations [ Flight Navigation, Engine management, Traffic signaling etc ], to booking systems [ Land, Air and Sea etc ], to account ledgers [ Banking and Financial Industry etc ], to communications and positioning [ GPS, TV, Radio, Internet, Mobile Phones etc ], to Business shop frontages and also to
HUMANS [ Identity, Financial and social status, Law – prosecution status etc ]. Once the limitations of Digital Storage Device capacity had been overcome in providing a step from kilobytes to Banks of Terabytes the need to fill such High capacity Databases accelerated in driving forward the Technological Digital Age that we now see today.
In becoming a totally new environment the manufacturers, blinkered visionaries, promoters and Governments all exploited the benefits of a paperless existence in providing for Nanosecond access to bulk networked data, its manipulation and commutability to others. Given this what then resulted was a need for everyone to protect digital data held by Joe Public, Banks, Businesses and the Government by the realization that the same Technology also provided a means whereby others could devise methods to gain access to it.
Identity theft, Data theft and Data manipulation has provided great rewards to those knowledgeable however would a large financial Institution admit to such losses by way of it thus ruining their reputations?. Its all very well saying that the pipes are not financially leaking but how are tax payers supporting the Financial Industry to view matters being ankle deep in water [debt] – so whose telling porky’s?.
Whose exploiting whom and what now differentiates reality from fantasy in a World provided for by the Wealthy whom now must suffer poverty in a “game” of identifying originality as to “TRUST”?. Our World has been transformed into a Sea of chaos and DISTRUST allowing innocent small fish to become victims of digitally produced sharks that have fished out everything only to starve themselves!. Through the very existence of digitally cloned people, cloned Businesses and cloned goods over a period of time people have been Educated to question originality however have still become victims as Technology supports better methods to present a clone as being original.
Database integrity, decision process and Governance
(1) Integrity - For just one record to be found in error on a Database the entire database becomes an unreliable data source thus collapsing all related networked SYSTEMS too.
(2) People Profiling – Databases records contain descriptive record fields however some fields are a digital YES(1) or NO(0) and so one must conform – no maybe’s?. Field classifications can change too and given that data in respect of statistical compilations are by selection as to fields one can easily omit particular fields for inclusion that would yield negative results not complimentary to a Gov in its aims!.
(3) National conformity – is where People are merely treated as digital Numbers to which digital equations are then applied in collecting revenue or face threats and hardship. Although cost effective as to deployment people circumstances had no relevance in the scheme of things which served to undermine the CSA as being a FAILURE.
In conclusion we have embraced our digital World as a New beginning by first walking and then running along a path not realizing that along the way we would not only be utilising such Technology to our own advantage but become victims of it in being treated as machines open to exploitation as to Wealth and Globalisation such that we all face the same fait in being components on a Global computer circuit board!. As ink out of pens now fill printer cartridges the Gov Spends Millions on Education scratching its head wondering why some children cannot write or tolerate lessons in favour of “plugging in” to digital stimuli. And least not forget our cultural degradation which was formerly about acquiring heritage skills, crafts and subsequent innovation which promoted New Industries to the benefit of the Country.
Britain along with other Countries are now “running on the spot” in suffering Digital Stock Market losses but will MONEY buy TRUST in remedying such a deadly embrace when real people stand behind clones of themselves and Businesses too?. Its simply no good saying that the operation was a complete success but the patient died however given todays fragmented Systems all enjoying great profits as to themselves WHEN will sense be realized in that Britain as a patient is killing itself off as Organs replicate slowing the Pulse of the Nation to a halt!.
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