Former CIA director James Woolsey calls the Smart Grid a stupid idea. He says it would be a hacker’s dream. He talks about a hacker in Shanghai. I think what he really means is Unit 61398 of the People’s Liberation Army operating out of Shanghai or some similar Chinese government/military organization.
The Smart Grid Is A Stupid Idea
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That’s the problem we’re running into with everything.
It is theoretically possible to continue building bigger, more complicated systems to continue improving our lives. But as those systems become bigger and more fragile, their efficiency falls and their fragility rises.
We are at the point where big is not just expensive, it’s dangerous.
Vernor Vinge dramatizes this point in his excellent alien encounter novel, “A Deepness in the Sky” as part of the background for Pham Nuwen.