Anonymous Archiving of Data in Systems That Run Civilizations
Many people are completely concerned with the control of data and really do not trust any computer system to have any personal data. You know Sam Walton who was the master of collecting relevant data once said it is foolish to collect data unless you plan on using it. This appears to be good advice. So often grocery stores collect data from us, such as all our purchases via a discount card, actually they raise all the prices and then give you discount if you use your awards card. But if they are collecting all this data yet never use it for anything that seems to be a silly waste of time.
Although for inventory purposes it does make some sense. But that data is already collected to insure that the shelves are stocked and the supply chain has what it needs in the pipeline as the groceries leave the store. At turn over rates of some 300% per year it is a must if you wish to keep the shelves stocked and have the items for sale that consumers desire to purchase, other wise they will not give you their money. In that case why be in business.
Now then, with this obvious illustration let me tell you why we need to collect data from our civilization, anonymous data. In other words it doesn’t matter who, but rather how many and at what times. You see we must maintain enormous data sets based on conditions, such as the peak energy uses depending on the heat of the weather so we know to ramp up the generation stations on hot days due to the number of air conditioners on. Or traffic counts during special events or peak commute times or if one artery is blocked the ramifications and traffic slow downs of the entire system, otherwise without this data gridlock occurs.
We need huge supercomputers running these systems and many sensors at potential choke points to collect the data and archive it. We must know these things if we are to protect the American People during times of catastrophic events of mother nature, international terrorist attacks or even minor events which threaten to disrupt key infrastructure systems. So consider this in 2006.
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