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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:25am on 2005-09-30 under

"Our society, as a whole, has no surge protection - no ability to take shocks. We have no excess beds, no excess equipment, no excess ability to produce vaccines or medicines, nothing. Everybody has worshiped at the altar of efficiency for so long that they don't understand that if you don't have extra capacity you have no ability to deal with unexpected events." -- Ian Welsh, 2005-08-24 (thanks to [livejournal.com profile] lpetrazickis for pointing it out.)

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posted by [identity profile] nancylebov.livejournal.com at 10:53am on 2005-09-30
Have you read Vinge's _A Deepness in the Sky_? It mentions two ways for technological societies to fail--one is excessive efficiency and the other is total surveillance.
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posted by [personal profile] siderea at 06:49pm on 2005-09-30
Hmm! Time to move that up to the to-read list...
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posted by [personal profile] siderea at 06:50pm on 2005-09-30
Woah. Pretty precient timing.
 
posted by [identity profile] merde.livejournal.com at 09:58pm on 2005-09-30
this is a very good quote. very thought-provoking.

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