Monthly Archives: December 2015

Innovation, Internet, Social Media

Integrate and evolve with digital, not resist and disrupt

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We hear lot of thoughts by people worrying about integrating with digital world like cloud, internet and so on with respect to privacy. Humanity is all about evolution and not about resist and disrupt.

What we need to do is embrace the digital world and find best practices and standards to move forward. Digital is not going anywhere. Its only going to be more and more around us. Rather than fight and disrupt, lets embrace it and integrate with it. Its just not about data and cyber security, its about what to store where, how much access, when, governance, what to do incase of data breach, backups, best practices, standards and so on.

Lets evolve with digital. 🙂

 

Information processing

One version of truth

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With so many systems, sub systems across the world in web, dark web and internal networks we have various versions of truth in each system. Truth in these systems may or may not be exactly the same version or even be fully/partially right in all/few/one system. We have search across systems but we don’t have a refined framework to find the right version of truth relative to time. With the proliferation of multiple systems, more and more systems going online, more sensors and mobile devices what we need is truth finder search.

It should be able to search across systems, create various states of truth across time and finally give via differential the truth w.r.t. given time.

Innovation, Security

Encryption

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We all have seen passwords, SSL, HTTPS, public private keys, hashing, salting, digital signature, biometrics, honeypots, vpn key generating token, etc. which are ways of achieving authentication, security and encryption. But what if we use our surroundings and few other parameters as a private key/password.

You store profiles for your home, your office, garden you go to. Profile is a mix of your personal attributes (could be biometrics), surroundings like structures, sun light direction/strength/etc. which together form your unique private key.

Rather than generating and storing your private key on pedrive/device, etc why not build a private key as a mix of surrounding, sunlight, physical parameters like wind/structures/etc along with personal physical attributes. You could create multiple profiles for various places. This though works for limited number of places only. But to take it to multiple locations mix these personal attributes with Google maps building an equation together by digitizing both – that’s our private key that works everywhere.

You would say what’s the advantage over just using personal attributes as a private key. Well this varying key made of Google maps data plus physical parameters plus personal parameters is varying. Its like our VPN key generating token which generates a new key as you move, just that this can’t be stolen. 🙂 There are lot of sensors and lot of computing power to help us in this.

Culture, Innovation

Race to be leaner, lighter, faster – limits will hit us

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Whether jet engines, aircrafts, IT outsourcing, manufacturing or services there is a race to be leaner, faster, better, higher quality, etc with lesser resources – humans or machines or steel or fibre. In itself its an oxymoron or irony though not always. It actually stops innovation at times.

Let us look how:
Innovation and peak performance happens when a system/entity (human or machine) works at optimum load. Pressure equals force divided by area. If you decrease the area, pressure increases. It causes more stress per unit area. Whether new entity can tolerate it now due to advances is a different stream of research but definitely stress per unit area is increasing. For aircrafts its pressure or stress per unit weight, for humans its stress per person as its assumed people will work with higher efficiency in lean/agile mode.

A fundamental rule which we ignore here is that systems/entities/people will work optimally within evolutionary biology/theoretical physics limits only. We can’t change them. Like if you want to occupy an area you need specific number of people/police/army/robots, this rule doesn’t change. You can augment this by technology but can’t change rules 100%. Extrapolate to innovation/optimum peak performance, its not possible always to be more and more lean, lighter, faster and get better quality and innovation. We need to follow nature’s limits, nothing goes faster than light in this universe.