Re: America drops off the map

From: Anders Sandberg (asa@nada.kth.se)
Date: Fri Aug 08 2003 - 07:19:09 MDT

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    On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:16:43PM +1000, Damien Broderick wrote:
    > Very weird; no posts for some hours from here or several other places in
    > the Homeland. What's afoot? Google news suggests that there might be some
    > major cracker attack.

    Well, I can hear you. Maybe it is just that it is thursday
    night/morning there (here in Sweden thursday evening was once
    called "piglördag", "maid's saturday", since servants were given
    the day off and they celebrated; maybe there are many maids in the
    US :-)

    An interesting thing to consider: if a large section of the world
    suffers a disaster (say a meteor strike or high altitude EMP), what
    are the best strategies to deal with it for the rest of the world?
    Outside the usual aid, making sure the disaster does not spread and
    so on, it seems that we are ill prepared to deal with large
    simultaneous fluctuations in the global webs. What incentives can
    we set up to make these webs more resilient?

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