— @alexismadrigal (The Atlantic)
Very cool illustration done by Disney animator Glenn Keane for Atari’s “Intelligent Encyclopedia” concept. Alan Kay and Bob Stein commissioned these illustrations in 1982. It was amusing to see a public safety use-case feature prominently amongst others that we accept into our digital fabric today. Source: Future of the Book
Kenichi Ohmae wrote a great piece in the Christian Science Monitor citing why probabilistic models aided by multiple layers of homogenous redundancy can give a false sense of comfort:
The most important lesson of Fukushima No.1 plant, therefore, is that we should have a multiplicity of means to provide a continuous electric supply and heat sinks. This is not the same as “You should not put all the eggs in one basket.” We should have eggs and apples in a few different baskets.
True redundancy is inherently diverse and harder to justify on financial and operational fronts. It is easier to engineer quintuple failover of the same system, and thus we do.
An under-exposed talk by Jeffrey Veen that we can certainly empathize with. Teams that exhibit grace under fire, are teams that also build enduring creations.
At this year’s GovFresh awards, CiviGuard won the Best Emergency Management App category for our Irene “Should I Evacuate?” application.
Given the excellence of the other entries and of the judging panel, it was a very fulfilling way to end an eventful and progressive 2011 for CiviGuard.
As a company based out of NY, it gives us immense pride to see NYC win City of the Year. Reinventing NYC.gov is a challenging mission with many competing interests. The DoITT Digital team has exploded out of the gate, we wish them only the best in 2012!
We are incredibly excited about the opportunity 2012 presents. Our 2.0 platform is going to make organizational continuity more accessible to all.
We wish you & yours a very Happy and Safe New Year!
Musings about the next generation of public safety.
