{"id":337,"date":"2017-03-19T22:01:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T22:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thomasgardnerofsalem.wordpress.com\/?p=337"},"modified":"2019-06-02T19:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T19:55:17","slug":"technologys-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tgsoc.org\/tech\/2017\/03\/19\/technologys-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology’s impact"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even the IEEE Spectrum had an article referring to the zombies with their little mobile devices. “Doing what?” is always my question, especially when I, as a pedestrian, almost get run over by one who is behind the wheel. We see these folks everywhere; they are an increasing danger.<\/p>\n

But, technology as a whole has always been a problem. NASA, famously, always picked the older technology. We can really discuss that.<\/p>\n

So, I have been at this since 2009 and have accumulated a whole lot of stuff. Some of it has been transcribed to articles (see What’s New 03\/19\/2017<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for reprints). A lot has been used for applications for various persons and several organizations. A lot is pending further analysis.<\/p>\n

One thing is that some framework has to be chosen. Everyone has gone to the cloud. That is not smart for many reasons. You do see some re-thinking this and defining personal clouds. I want the TGS to have its own server. We have to discuss all of this.<\/p>\n

But, the Windows 10<\/strong><\/a> deal, of late, has helped hone focus on some of the issues. I picked it in order to get up to speed on the current, but, in my research, I noticed that many people who “compute” (as in, real stuff) are still at Windows 7. Well, I see that as a proper way to go for many reasons, though I will limp along with Windows 10 (MS is now releasing something that is a scaled down Windows 10 with more web friendliness – as if that is what real work needs).<\/p>\n

You see, an update occurred. So, the wifi goes. I got that restarted. Mind you, that type of thing took away from my getting done what I had planned. Then, the printer wouldn’t work. Here, Windows 10 sees the thing as a scanner only. So, it will read a page, but it will not print. Drivers are not available. Not yet. Well, fortunately, I have an older laptop that I’m using until I decide on a printer.<\/p>\n

One bit of the deal is that things have to be addressable. Oh Lord, IoE will kill us if AI doesn’t ;-).<\/p>\n

Now, as the Windows 10 post mentions, I spent a little time getting familiar and configuring the system. Then, I slowly started to go through files and get things up to date. That forced me to come up with encryption strategies (in the works as well as forcing a rethink of processes, such as backup). All of this, side issues.<\/p>\n

So, I’m rolling along. Too, I became quite enamored of the breadth and depth of what I had gathered. Too, I was impressed by how much I could do normally. Yet, we do power-using at the beck and call of the system. Lose the trace, and one has to rebuild, essentially, the process.<\/p>\n

This will be a huge problem for robots; deep learning is a panacea (silver bullet).<\/p>\n

BTW, the transition from Windows Vista to Windows 7 was a piece of cake. With Windows 10, they want too much control; so far, I have been able to circumvent that. I am not sure that letting them have control would make it better; in my mind, I would worry even if things seemed to work.<\/p>\n

Ah, if only we could go back 15 years and do this over, folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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