TED Community » Adrian Grassi
About Me
I have been working with computer security for well over ten years now, I have worked with many security technologies but concentrated most of my time implementing, designing, upgrading, fine-tuning, administrating and supporting Siteminder and related technologies such as differnet LDAP's and Web servers systems.
- Location:
- United States, Kissimmee, FL
- Gender:
- Male
- Areas of expertise:
- technology
- I am:
- Activist, Artist, Brainstormer, Concerned citizen, Idea generator, Inventor, Parent, Technologist, Writer/Editor
- Languages:
- English, Portuguese, Spanish
- My website links:
- Author Site/Blog
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I'm passionate about
Technology, writing and security.
An idea worth spreading
The internet is a great historical tool that is currently being wasted. Everyday millions of historical data gets altered or deleted. That information should be perpetually preserved so that we don't lose historical facts of great significance like it happened so many times in our past. Imagine thousands of years from now being able to research precisely what went on today with complete with all sorts of information including news, videos, photos, etc... Basically each and everyday a snapshot of the internet as whole should be accurately recorded for preservation. Events logged on the internet is history in the making and needs to be preserved. To preserve our history new tools need to be developed and a consortium needs to be implemented mainly because it would be an undertaking of immense proportions with future benefits of even greater proportions.
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What can we make this idea spread and take more definite shape.
People don't know that I'm good at
Worrying about the future.
My TED Story
I came to the USA at the age of 19 years old with one dollar in my pocket. I learned English in the first 6 months. It wasn't long before I gave life on the big apple and moved to Boston, where I worked for companies like EMC2, Guardent, Netegrity, Delphi, Citrix etc... I learned basic at the age of 12 years old and by 13 I was teaching the night class while I learned the same material during the afternoon. Growing up in Brazil gave me an unique perpective of the world. I was blessed throughout my whole life since I was able to grasp new concepts and solutions without much effort. It is as though ideas just sprout in my mind and take predetermined shape, I honestly don't know where it comes from.
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A reply on Conversation: An internet snapshot should be saved daily for historical preservation.
As far as privacy goes, anything on the internet publicly available should be saved in the historical snapshot.
We could have a separate/protected archive for private data. Where some rules and regulation could be imposed on access.
What would happen with our knowledge today if a major catastrophe would happen? All the knowledge that we achieve in the last 100 years could be compromised to the point of no recovery.
That risk should never exist because we should have a backup/emergency knowledge repository where we can always reference back in case of a disaster.
Even ancient civilizations worried about keeping a historical record for us yet today we don't even worry about it.
We built an international space station, we can build a worldwide internet backup system. But I agree as technology stands today the storage and network capabilities would be immense. But given a common goal and a clear design I believe that we can achieve great advances in technology where we could achieve the whole internet quickly and efficiently. I would imagine that new network, storage, bus subsystems and computer processing discoveries result from such effort.
A comment on Conversation: How to continue?
A government catered to the people will be required. We need to put our head together and invent a new and better system of governance. I'm a big fan of the resource based government I think it has potential. Money has brought us wars, famine and division, okay ipads and iphones too :)
Another thing the people will never truly be free, until the people controls basic services likes energy, housing and water processing. We don't realize it completely yet but in a way we're still enslaved. The difference is that we have an appearance of freedom. But it's nothing more than that an appearance.