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From the Ted Talk by Danny Hillis: The Internet could crash. We need a Plan B
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So we've built this system where we understand all the prtas of it, but we're using it in a very, very different way than we expected to use it, and it's gotten a very, very different scale than it was densgeid for. And in fact, nobody really exactly understands all the things it's being used for right now. It's turning into one of these big emergent ssetyms like the finaiacnl system, where we've designed all the parts but nobody really exactly understands how it oeeparts and all the little details of it and what kinds of emergent behaviors it can have. And so if you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it can do this, or it does do this, or it will do that, you should taert it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather, or something like that. They have an informed opinion, but it's changing so quickly that even the experts don't know exactly what's going on. So if you see one of these maps of the Internet, it's just somebody's guess. Nobody really knows what the Internet is right now because it's different than it was an hour ago. It's constantly cinhgang. It's constantly reconfiguring.
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So we've built this system where we understand all the _____ of it, but we're using it in a very, very different way than we expected to use it, and it's gotten a very, very different scale than it was ________ for. And in fact, nobody really exactly understands all the things it's being used for right now. It's turning into one of these big emergent _______ like the _________ system, where we've designed all the parts but nobody really exactly understands how it ________ and all the little details of it and what kinds of emergent behaviors it can have. And so if you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it can do this, or it does do this, or it will do that, you should _____ it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather, or something like that. They have an informed opinion, but it's changing so quickly that even the experts don't know exactly what's going on. So if you see one of these maps of the Internet, it's just somebody's guess. Nobody really knows what the Internet is right now because it's different than it was an hour ago. It's constantly ________. It's constantly reconfiguring.
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Original Text
So we've built this system where we understand all the parts of it, but we're using it in a very, very different way than we expected to use it, and it's gotten a very, very different scale than it was designed for. And in fact, nobody really exactly understands all the things it's being used for right now. It's turning into one of these big emergent systems like the financial system, where we've designed all the parts but nobody really exactly understands how it operates and all the little details of it and what kinds of emergent behaviors it can have. And so if you hear an expert talking about the Internet and saying it can do this, or it does do this, or it will do that, you should treat it with the same skepticism that you might treat the comments of an economist about the economy or a weatherman about the weather, or something like that. They have an informed opinion, but it's changing so quickly that even the experts don't know exactly what's going on. So if you see one of these maps of the Internet, it's just somebody's guess. Nobody really knows what the Internet is right now because it's different than it was an hour ago. It's constantly changing. It's constantly reconfiguring.
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