
Good morning. Watching Fox News report on the aftermath of the Ground Stop yesterday that affected tens of thousands of flights traveling with in America and coming to and leaving from America, it got me thinking. Now, I’m not saying that the Microsoft problem from Thursday has anything at all to do with the problem from yesterday which thee FAA is saying was a router problem.
This whole scenario from the last couple of days has me thinking about how vulnerable we are as a Sovereign Nation and a civilized world to those who would shut down essential technological systems for the purpose of terror and tyranny.
People are quick to fear things and also to jump to conclusions. However, as we move towards artificial intelligence systems that could be running everything, people are afraid of a scenario like that in the Terminator movies in which “Skynet becomes aware”.
That issue is less likely at this present time then the problems we faced on Thursday and Friday. As anybody who works for a living knows, or if you venture into places on your computer and phone that you shouldn’t be in, technological systems can be overcome by hackers and viruses.
I don’t believe that Microsoft has made public what the problem was that caused their shutdown. However, the scary part about the possibility of a hack on a global scale boggles the mind when you think about all the information that is now stored in clouds instead of a local systems or handwritten files.
There are a lot of very skilled technological geniuses out there. Some of them are not ethical and therein will lies the problem.
Just as we have seen in America, technology can be rigged for the purpose of the gaining of political power.
Embrace that thought and allow it to grow exponentially and you can understand why people are so afraid that someday in the not-so-distant future “Skynet will become aware.”
“Shall we play a game?”
Until He Comes,
KJ








