Life after Michael Jackson
Sunday 12 July 2009 - Filed under Life Outside Work
I have been observing a certain string of news headlines and editorials since the death of Michael Jackson:
- Google mistook Jackson searches for Net attack
- Michael Jackson memorial pushes Internet traffic to its limits
- Federal Web sites knocked out by cyber attack
- Report: NKorean army suspected over cyberattacks
- For Web apps, performance remains an uphill battle
- Chrome OS: Cloud computing made real
- Chrome OS for the clueless: What it means for real people
These seemingly unrelated reports are actually interwoven with one underlying concern; it’s a sobering reminder of the ever-growing reliance on infrastructure built up on the so-called cloud, and how easy it can fail on us.
It would be foolish to expect the Internet to be able to withstand the impact of the next big global surprise, regardless of its nature. Sadly for those who were naïvely ill-equipped and unprepared, that could amount to an incalculable sum of collateral damage.
I told you so!
2009-07-12 » JK