Guest Post by Eric Peters
If you’re a fan of the rebooted Battlestar Galactica series, you will remember what made it possible for the Galactica to escape the Cylon attack which destroyed the rest of the fleet: The Galactica was oddly analog – oddly because it was after all, a spaceship and one capable of faster-than-light speed as well.
But it’s a TV show – and the premise/plot line is that while the evil Cylons were able to use a computer virus to disable the more modern ships in the fleet, they couldn’t hack Galactica, which still had hard-line phones, even – and thus the ship was able to “jump” out of their reach to live and fight another day.
This, obviously, is a perk of not being “connected.”
And, injected.
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