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Double-Edged Sword of Computational Sciences
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HenryDavidT
Feb 14, 2016, 9:05:05 AM2/14/16
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While the power of computation has uplifted humanity in endless ways, it may also very well bring down our modern infrastructure, which is relies almost 100% on electricity, which is close to 100% controlled by computational machines and devices.
From you home, to your computer, to your car, to the trains and planes you use, to elevators and escalators, to stores and gas stations.... VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING is run on electricity controlled by computational machines and devices that are virtually all programmable and more and more remotely accessible.... because everything that is useful to us === from you cell phones (which are also GPS devices) to all other communication === is hooked up to SATELLITES for ease of transmission...
If something is only "locally" hooked up, it is not very useful beyond doing local things.
Scientists and computer programmers have already readily proven that you could hijack cars, remotely, if you know enough of the cars specifics.
That means soon enough hackers === not your average hackers but determined computer experts who don't operate by average moral or ethics or rules === will be able to infiltrate large machines that control our electrical grids and other infrastructures and "tell" such central machines to run-until-broke or melting, creating giant catastrophes from nuclear meltdown to city-wide or regional power-outage...
While the power of computation has uplifted humanity in endless ways, it may also very well bring down our modern infrastructure, which is relies almost 100% on electricity, which is close to 100% controlled by computational machines and devices.
From you home, to your computer, to your car, to the trains and planes you use, to elevators and escalators, to stores and gas stations.... VIRTUALLY EVERYTHING is run on electricity controlled by computational machines and devices that are virtually all programmable and more and more remotely accessible.... because everything that is useful to us === from you cell phones (which are also GPS devices) to all other communication === is hooked up to SATELLITES for ease of transmission...
If something is only "locally" hooked up, it is not very useful beyond doing local things.
Scientists and computer programmers have already readily proven that you could hijack cars, remotely, if you know enough of the cars specifics.
That means soon enough hackers === not your average hackers but determined computer experts who don't operate by average moral or ethics or rules === will be able to infiltrate large machines that control our electrical grids and other infrastructures and "tell" such central machines to run-until-broke or melting, creating giant catastrophes from nuclear meltdown to city-wide or regional power-outage...
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