....why nobody talks about the fact Mars gravity is something along the lines of 0.37ish that of Earth's? Doesn’t such low gravity have disastrous health effects on any living organism from Earth? Moreover, this is something we will not be able to change about Mars.
Or how the soil is contaminated with perchlorates, which is toxic to us. All of it....
Or how the lack of magnetic field will make it impossible to actually keep an atmosphere even if somehow we manage to terraform Mars in the first place.
The cold, IMHO, is the easiest problem to deal with. In fact we have technology to deal with cold weather since the dawn of human civilization. The reason nobody lives in Antarctica is because it makes absolutely 0 financial sense to do so, rather than any kind of technological barriers. It's permanently covered by kilometre(s) thick ice sheet, making access to local resources extremely expensive & impractical. In addition, no colony can survive for long with a negative balance sheet (meaning if the costs of keeping a human alive > the wealth he can extract from said colony over the course of a human lifetime, it dies out). Unless the mother nation is willing to keep the colony artificially afloat while it slowly bankrupts itself.
People forget that the current way of working on a PC evolved over 150ish years....
It is still the most efficient way to work over long hours (assuming correct posture) with the least amount of effort required (imagine your arms after having to navigate for 7 hoursusing touch with 2 32" 4K displays).
Also businesses have invested BILLIONS in software that currently only run on x86-AMD64 architecture (and in fact due to their GUI and information density not really usable on touch navigation) that they are in no hurry to replace.
It's possible that one day we will replace all desktops with smartphones powerfull enough to run x86-AMD64 emulators to run legacy apps, however mouse/keyboard/screen setup is not going away any time soon.
You are correct that there is no point in predicting the future, but it does not mean we should not give it any though and possibly prepare for some of the outcomes.
For example take death; we all know we will die at some point in the future. But we do not know when. We just know it will happen at some point. Does that mean we should live life and pretend it is never going to happen? Or is it wiser to prepare one's will, pick out a burial plot and have all the preparations made ahead of time?
Automation is real, and it does happen. When will it happen? Nobody knows....but we just know it will happen barring some kind of unforeseen disaster (massive solar flair sends us back to stone age, nuclear war wiped us out, etc).
If there is something better than AI, if our brains can conceive it so can AI.
We are still defining I, IMHO.
As for a smooth transition, it is IMHO again, the best we can hope for. Unless something unexpected happens that completely derails us, it's only a question of when, not if.
I've noticed a lot of people do not seem to understand the dangers of AI.
People seem to think that their job is somehow special, that they can never be replaced by a machine.
Also there is another group of people who seem to think that it's not a big deal, that just like the industrial revolution, new jobs will pop up for people to migrate to.
Both are wrong.
As of yet, there is nothing inherently special about a human being that cannot be reproduced by machines. When you can mechanize a human in it's entirety, new jobs created will be filled by machines.
Think creativity is some kind of magical power exempt from being reproduced by AI? Think again. There are AI right now that can paint, create new music, write news articles etc. And their works are indistinguishable from those produced by their human counterparts.
AI can code, robots can build and support and repair robots.
Even jobs who people consider "safe" (doctors, lawyers, etc) will eventually disappear. Imagine an AI doctor, who can in a fraction of a second, know your ENTIRE medical history as well as all drugs you where ever prescribed in your life time and know all possible interactions between those drugs and is up to date on research on your particular ailment that was published 1 hour ago. No human doctor could compete. And these AI doctors will work 24/7,365 days a year. No sick days, no training, no family drama to worry about while at work.....
Do you think it's coincidence that the first widely available commercial application AI happens to be autonomous road vehicles? The transportation industry is the #1 industry in North America in terms of total number of people employed (truck drivers, taxi drivers, pizza delivery, etc.).
Why do you think some governments have started experimenting with or looking into basic universal income?
Say an animal mutates a gene that gives it 2x the strength that is normally present in it's species. Thus it wins all combats against rivals for mating rights and spreads it's genes (and eventually it's strength becomes the baseline in the species). Nature does not turn around and say "hey wait no fair, you cheated...." and bans it from reproducing.
How about this example: Say a stone age humanoid stumbles across 2 devices; 1 is some sort of super accurate energy weapon and the other is a force field device both with an infinite energy supply. The person who discovers it and learns to use it goes on to become the leader of a powerful empire who eventually conquers all neighboring tribes. Revered as a deity, he goes on to reproduce with so many females that his genes become part of the baseline for that species. Does nature say "hey no wait, that was not fair to the others, you are disqualified from competing!" ?
That is not how the real world works. I think our brains are hardwired to use any perceived advantage to win in any competitive situation. So much so it overrides logic and discipline even to the detriment of the group as a whole.So to me these results are not that much of a surprise. Winnners, alpha's or whatever you want to call them tend to do whatever it takes to win, morals and ethics be damned. Might explain why so many rich and powerful people display sociopathic/psychopathic tendencies. This is also part of the reason I believe our species is doomed in the long run. Our inability to override our hardwired tendencies to want to rise to the top/alpha position.
It means your company rents the network or wifi from a 3rd party.
There are different variations (some where you own the hardware, to them owning the hardware) and they manage it for you with their expertise.
Thing is is the network was large enough to require a full time person on it, this requirement will not change. So you will be stuck paying full time worker + overhead of 3rd party who needs to profit. Also at the end of the day you will pay the hardware costs many times over because again the 3rd party is there to make a profit, not be your friendly business partner.
However, if these mega service corps properly lobbied their local gov for some special tax exemptions, this might actually be cheaper in the long run than paying a person directly. But it comes at the expense of service (you have an SLA, if you have to wait, you wait, they will not prioritize you business over others, unless of course you are willing to pay much more).
It's not that IT jobs will not exist. They will. It's just that the majority of the labor will be off shored, and what cannot be well they will have hundreds upon hundreds of graduates competing again H1B's (or your nation's equivalent) for the little remaining jobs.
Kinda how like farming works in USA and Canada. You know where they fly in temporary workers from Mexico and then ship them back when the season is done.
It's an entire industry transforming itself. A paradigms shift.
We are living in a post PC world, and it's never going to come back.
With everything centralized, the hardware commoditized...there will not be any decent jobs left in this field (for somebody that lives in a Western nation).
It is not clandestine if the people meeting in a public location are known to all, if people can hear what they discuss, with whom, what they are planning.....
They reason why they can meet clandestinely in a public space is due to anonymity. Nobody knows who they are and don't care...
However if for example, il all outspoken critics of the catholic church are grouping up in a public park, the catholic church knows something is up and could move to suppress said movement.
It was because the anonymity cities provided people where able to question religious dogma, dared to question the authority of king and queens etc.....
Yes, having anonymity also leads to people being douche bags to each other, that is the price to pay for a technological civilization.
BTW last I checked, small towns also had a lot of the same issues as big cities. Murder, drug use, spousal abuse, etc happen there too. And although I have not looked into the numbers, probably in the same proportions as major cities. So like if there is 3 murders per 100,000 in a mjor urban area, that means if you divide up the population into 66 towns of 1500 people, only 3 of them will experience a murder. Which leads to the perception that it "never happens".
The west has become nothing more than a collection of cowards and morons......
Hey our way of life is under threat, we need to defend it by........changing our way of life!
Umm do none of these politicians notice how stupid that is?
First of all, no matter what measures you put in place, short of getting a few of pre-cogs or embedding a chip in everybody's brain that monitors and reports back all thoughts or locking up all humans, THERE IS NO WAY TO ELIMINATE TERRORISM. Ever.
Second, if we want to have a free an open society, this is just the cost of of having such a society, We will forever be vulnerable to such attacks. Yes horrendous and tragic, however hardly a threat to a society as a whole.
Funny thing is, we as a society, accept the fact that in order to have cars, there will always be deaths caused by car accidents. However, we can ACTUALLY eliminate all car related deaths OVERNIGHT, by banning cars, Yet nobody in their right mind would suggest such a thing because, for some reason, people as a hole realize that the benefits of having cars far far far outweighs the cost to society (the tragic thousands that are killed every year in car accidents). Why this logic is not carried over when terrorism is involved is beyond me (although the constant bombardment from propaganda I mean mainstream media telling us to be terrified might have something to do with it).
And my final point for the day, didn't terrorism exist LOOOONG before the invention of computers and SLL encryption? It didn't seem to stop them or slow them down back then, why would it today? Also how will you force terrorists to NOT USE encryption? You can't simply un-invent it, or put the genie back in the bottle. All this would accomplish is remove the few protections we have from an over-reaching tyrannical government, while terrorist will happily keep using their rooted/jailbroken android/ios devices to send encrypted communications to each other.
"Helps people cope with loss and the certainty of death"
With a lie....and btw you find out it was a lie, too late to do anything about it.
"Social infrastructure, including baseline values and morals".....
Humans had baseline values and morals long before religion was invented. It didn't take the bible to figure out murdering each other was not a good thing. Which BTW you realize some religions say crazy shit like killing your rebellious teen-age children. And offer up your daughter for rape rather than take it up the ass yourself.
"Aid to the needy (impoverished, addicts)" Although they do help, they are not the only ones. Non religious organizations help also. And the insidious part about help coming from religious groups is a lot of them do it in the hopes of recruiting more and more believers!!!!!
....of what a horrible tragedy this is, but I fear another round of loss of liberty and rights is in the making for western countries.
Which is sad really.
Nobody sees that the terrorists are winning, when a handful of sand hicks can bring the Western Nations to their knees terrified of Allah....which is EXACTLY what they want.
Canada chickened out and all it took is 2 tragic deaths before setting up the foundations and laws for their future police state.
USA did it way back in '01
But wtv....seems just like so hopeless...It's almost as if Western Civ wants to die, willingly, and revert back to the days of fiefdoms, theocracies and barbarism.
What other infrastructure costs am I ignoring? Like I mentioned in my post, I still need to keep it all around for the other servers I host (and to move those to a cloud provider would require a lot of time & $$$ to make things work), and last I checked the students & staff's computers depend on you know network infrastructure. As for the administration, I would still be the one doing the administration regardless it's clouded or not. In every possible scenario I can conceive of clouding my e-mail ends up costing significantly more than the current setup. In terms of stability and up time, I am currently as near as you can get to 100% uptime.
I am not saying doing it in-house is always the best option. You need to look at your company and use the cloud where it makes sense. It's not the be all end-all solution to IT that the major players are making it out to be.
Here is a scenario where it does make perfect sense: a small company, about 5-10 people. They want to have company e-mails, a file server and some industry specific software they need to run their business.
Another is a huge multinational corporation that has to keep a few data centers around to meet it's computing needs but IT is not their primary business.
Outsourcing your e-mail isn't quite the deal it looks like it is. In some scenarios it's cheaper and in some it is not. It all depends on your situation.
For example: I managed IT in a school. M$ licenses cost almost nothing (due to school pricing). So right off the bat I get Exchange & Windows server for approx ~$260. I have a simple 2 server+ SAN setup with vmware & HA enabled on it. System is pretty redundant and solid. Never gone down except due to my own stupidity. If I outsource our e-mail, last I checked they wanted $15/month/account from Outlook.com I have about 150 accounts...so 15*150= $2250/month + tax for email. FOREVER.$27,000.00/year. FOREVER. Say that was the non-special negotiated price. Ok 50% cheaper. It's still 13500/year FOREVER.
+ they can't get rid of me because somebody needs to manage the accounts (unlock passwords, new accounts, delete old accounts etc.), they can't get rid of the infrastructure (teachers & students need computers with network/internet = DHCP servers, firwalls, DNS servers blaa blaa), we can't easily cloud the other servers (it is doable but with a lot of effort and cost to redesigning how everything works here + mandatory increase in internet bandwidth offsets a lot of the savings), and guess what? Because you become hyperdependant of the internet always working, you still need to build in redundant systems (2 firewalls + 2 ISPs or else everything goes down when the internet goes down).
BTW Servers+SAN+VMWARE+VEEAM+misc (like a NAS to dump backups) cost approx $40k, ammortized in 5 years. Just 5 years of cloud email = $67,500 (at the cheaper rate). My salary was not included since either way I would be here. And btw that $40k also runs a bunch of other stuff that otherwise I would need to pay to have hosted elsewhere.
It's not just the hackers, the government could essentially kill you by disabling everything that keeps you alive (heating, ability to store and cook food, the ability to remain warm and sheltered etc etc.). No need for costly drones.
They will be able to track your every single breath...They will know when you cheated on your taxes just by looking at the quality of beer your purchased.....
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....why nobody talks about the fact Mars gravity is something along the lines of 0.37ish that of Earth's? Doesn’t such low gravity have disastrous health effects on any living organism from Earth? Moreover, this is something we will not be able to change about Mars.
Or how the soil is contaminated with perchlorates, which is toxic to us. All of it....
Or how the lack of magnetic field will make it impossible to actually keep an atmosphere even if somehow we manage to terraform Mars in the first place.
The cold, IMHO, is the easiest problem to deal with. In fact we have technology to deal with cold weather since the dawn of human civilization. The reason nobody lives in Antarctica is because it makes absolutely 0 financial sense to do so, rather than any kind of technological barriers. It's permanently covered by kilometre(s) thick ice sheet, making access to local resources extremely expensive & impractical. In addition, no colony can survive for long with a negative balance sheet (meaning if the costs of keeping a human alive > the wealth he can extract from said colony over the course of a human lifetime, it dies out). Unless the mother nation is willing to keep the colony artificially afloat while it slowly bankrupts itself.
People forget that the current way of working on a PC evolved over 150ish years....
It is still the most efficient way to work over long hours (assuming correct posture) with the least amount of effort required (imagine your arms after having to navigate for 7 hoursusing touch with 2 32" 4K displays).
Also businesses have invested BILLIONS in software that currently only run on x86-AMD64 architecture (and in fact due to their GUI and information density not really usable on touch navigation) that they are in no hurry to replace.
It's possible that one day we will replace all desktops with smartphones powerfull enough to run x86-AMD64 emulators to run legacy apps, however mouse/keyboard/screen setup is not going away any time soon.
You are correct that there is no point in predicting the future, but it does not mean we should not give it any though and possibly prepare for some of the outcomes.
For example take death; we all know we will die at some point in the future. But we do not know when. We just know it will happen at some point. Does that mean we should live life and pretend it is never going to happen? Or is it wiser to prepare one's will, pick out a burial plot and have all the preparations made ahead of time?
Automation is real, and it does happen. When will it happen? Nobody knows....but we just know it will happen barring some kind of unforeseen disaster (massive solar flair sends us back to stone age, nuclear war wiped us out, etc).
If there is something better than AI, if our brains can conceive it so can AI.
We are still defining I, IMHO.
As for a smooth transition, it is IMHO again, the best we can hope for. Unless something unexpected happens that completely derails us, it's only a question of when, not if.
As opposed to stable humans?
Our "software" seems just as buggy and vulnerable to security threats (illness, propaganda, etc.) as machine code is.
AI does not need to be perfect or infallible. It just needs to perform better than human.
What does it matter? If we create machines that can perfectly emulate the functions of a human brain, it can do it too.
I've noticed a lot of people do not seem to understand the dangers of AI.
People seem to think that their job is somehow special, that they can never be replaced by a machine.
Also there is another group of people who seem to think that it's not a big deal, that just like the industrial revolution, new jobs will pop up for people to migrate to.
Both are wrong.
As of yet, there is nothing inherently special about a human being that cannot be reproduced by machines. When you can mechanize a human in it's entirety, new jobs created will be filled by machines.
Think creativity is some kind of magical power exempt from being reproduced by AI? Think again. There are AI right now that can paint, create new music, write news articles etc. And their works are indistinguishable from those produced by their human counterparts.
AI can code, robots can build and support and repair robots.
Even jobs who people consider "safe" (doctors, lawyers, etc) will eventually disappear. Imagine an AI doctor, who can in a fraction of a second, know your ENTIRE medical history as well as all drugs you where ever prescribed in your life time and know all possible interactions between those drugs and is up to date on research on your particular ailment that was published 1 hour ago. No human doctor could compete. And these AI doctors will work 24/7,365 days a year. No sick days, no training, no family drama to worry about while at work.....
Do you think it's coincidence that the first widely available commercial application AI happens to be autonomous road vehicles? The transportation industry is the #1 industry in North America in terms of total number of people employed (truck drivers, taxi drivers, pizza delivery, etc.).
Why do you think some governments have started experimenting with or looking into basic universal income?
Every human activity has a cost. Nothing is free in this world.
Who will pay to publish and host these papers? Advertisement? How well did that turn out for the Internet?
This does not exist in nature.
Survival of the fittest and all.
Say an animal mutates a gene that gives it 2x the strength that is normally present in it's species. Thus it wins all combats against rivals for mating rights and spreads it's genes (and eventually it's strength becomes the baseline in the species). Nature does not turn around and say "hey wait no fair, you cheated...." and bans it from reproducing.
How about this example: Say a stone age humanoid stumbles across 2 devices; 1 is some sort of super accurate energy weapon and the other is a force field device both with an infinite energy supply. The person who discovers it and learns to use it goes on to become the leader of a powerful empire who eventually conquers all neighboring tribes. Revered as a deity, he goes on to reproduce with so many females that his genes become part of the baseline for that species. Does nature say "hey no wait, that was not fair to the others, you are disqualified from competing!" ?
That is not how the real world works. I think our brains are hardwired to use any perceived advantage to win in any competitive situation. So much so it overrides logic and discipline even to the detriment of the group as a whole.So to me these results are not that much of a surprise. Winnners, alpha's or whatever you want to call them tend to do whatever it takes to win, morals and ethics be damned. Might explain why so many rich and powerful people display sociopathic/psychopathic tendencies. This is also part of the reason I believe our species is doomed in the long run. Our inability to override our hardwired tendencies to want to rise to the top/alpha position.
It means your company rents the network or wifi from a 3rd party.
There are different variations (some where you own the hardware, to them owning the hardware) and they manage it for you with their expertise.
Thing is is the network was large enough to require a full time person on it, this requirement will not change. So you will be stuck paying full time worker + overhead of 3rd party who needs to profit. Also at the end of the day you will pay the hardware costs many times over because again the 3rd party is there to make a profit, not be your friendly business partner.
However, if these mega service corps properly lobbied their local gov for some special tax exemptions, this might actually be cheaper in the long run than paying a person directly. But it comes at the expense of service (you have an SLA, if you have to wait, you wait, they will not prioritize you business over others, unless of course you are willing to pay much more).
Just to clarify:
It's not that IT jobs will not exist. They will. It's just that the majority of the labor will be off shored, and what cannot be well they will have hundreds upon hundreds of graduates competing again H1B's (or your nation's equivalent) for the little remaining jobs.
Kinda how like farming works in USA and Canada. You know where they fly in temporary workers from Mexico and then ship them back when the season is done.
This is not a bubble bursting.
It's an entire industry transforming itself. A paradigms shift.
We are living in a post PC world, and it's never going to come back.
With everything centralized, the hardware commoditized...there will not be any decent jobs left in this field (for somebody that lives in a Western nation).
CS departments are pumping out graduates like a mill.
Corporations are pushing hard for H1B visas....
Outsourcing still going strong....
Massive consolidation into data centers.
Tech field is a total disaster. Anybody studying in it right now should switch ASAP to another field.
There is some money left to be made however it's going to be the extremely rare exception rather than the rule.
It is not clandestine if the people meeting in a public location are known to all, if people can hear what they discuss, with whom, what they are planning.....
They reason why they can meet clandestinely in a public space is due to anonymity. Nobody knows who they are and don't care...
However if for example, il all outspoken critics of the catholic church are grouping up in a public park, the catholic church knows something is up and could move to suppress said movement.
Of course there was groups meeting in secret.
However how do do you have secret meetings if everybody knows who you are, where you are, what you are talking about and with whom at all times?
Secrecy is dependent on privacy.
Anonymity is what enabled the modern world.
It was because the anonymity cities provided people where able to question religious dogma, dared to question the authority of king and queens etc.....
Yes, having anonymity also leads to people being douche bags to each other, that is the price to pay for a technological civilization.
BTW last I checked, small towns also had a lot of the same issues as big cities. Murder, drug use, spousal abuse, etc happen there too. And although I have not looked into the numbers, probably in the same proportions as major cities. So like if there is 3 murders per 100,000 in a mjor urban area, that means if you divide up the population into 66 towns of 1500 people, only 3 of them will experience a murder. Which leads to the perception that it "never happens".
That is correct.
Guess what? The terrorists won in '01.
All it took was 20 people and 20 box cutters. VS TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS in advanced weaponry.....
The west has become nothing more than a collection of cowards and morons......
Hey our way of life is under threat, we need to defend it by........changing our way of life!
Umm do none of these politicians notice how stupid that is?
First of all, no matter what measures you put in place, short of getting a few of pre-cogs or embedding a chip in everybody's brain that monitors and reports back all thoughts or locking up all humans, THERE IS NO WAY TO ELIMINATE TERRORISM. Ever.
Second, if we want to have a free an open society, this is just the cost of of having such a society, We will forever be vulnerable to such attacks. Yes horrendous and tragic, however hardly a threat to a society as a whole.
Funny thing is, we as a society, accept the fact that in order to have cars, there will always be deaths caused by car accidents. However, we can ACTUALLY eliminate all car related deaths OVERNIGHT, by banning cars, Yet nobody in their right mind would suggest such a thing because, for some reason, people as a hole realize that the benefits of having cars far far far outweighs the cost to society (the tragic thousands that are killed every year in car accidents). Why this logic is not carried over when terrorism is involved is beyond me (although the constant bombardment from propaganda I mean mainstream media telling us to be terrified might have something to do with it).
And my final point for the day, didn't terrorism exist LOOOONG before the invention of computers and SLL encryption? It didn't seem to stop them or slow them down back then, why would it today? Also how will you force terrorists to NOT USE encryption? You can't simply un-invent it, or put the genie back in the bottle. All this would accomplish is remove the few protections we have from an over-reaching tyrannical government, while terrorist will happily keep using their rooted/jailbroken android/ios devices to send encrypted communications to each other.
"Helps people cope with loss and the certainty of death"
With a lie....and btw you find out it was a lie, too late to do anything about it.
"Social infrastructure, including baseline values and morals".....
Humans had baseline values and morals long before religion was invented. It didn't take the bible to figure out murdering each other was not a good thing. Which BTW you realize some religions say crazy shit like killing your rebellious teen-age children. And offer up your daughter for rape rather than take it up the ass yourself.
"Aid to the needy (impoverished, addicts)"
Although they do help, they are not the only ones. Non religious organizations help also. And the insidious part about help coming from religious groups is a lot of them do it in the hopes of recruiting more and more believers!!!!!
....of what a horrible tragedy this is, but I fear another round of loss of liberty and rights is in the making for western countries.
Which is sad really.
Nobody sees that the terrorists are winning, when a handful of sand hicks can bring the Western Nations to their knees terrified of Allah....which is EXACTLY what they want.
Canada chickened out and all it took is 2 tragic deaths before setting up the foundations and laws for their future police state.
USA did it way back in '01
But wtv....seems just like so hopeless...It's almost as if Western Civ wants to die, willingly, and revert back to the days of fiefdoms, theocracies and barbarism.
And,,,last I checked, you would still be breathing the same air regardless if you drove or teleported around those cities.
Soooo no exactly sure what your point was.
Ok, I'll bite.....
What other infrastructure costs am I ignoring? Like I mentioned in my post, I still need to keep it all around for the other servers I host (and to move those to a cloud provider would require a lot of time & $$$ to make things work), and last I checked the students & staff's computers depend on you know network infrastructure. As for the administration, I would still be the one doing the administration regardless it's clouded or not. In every possible scenario I can conceive of clouding my e-mail ends up costing significantly more than the current setup. In terms of stability and up time, I am currently as near as you can get to 100% uptime.
I am not saying doing it in-house is always the best option. You need to look at your company and use the cloud where it makes sense. It's not the be all end-all solution to IT that the major players are making it out to be.
Here is a scenario where it does make perfect sense: a small company, about 5-10 people. They want to have company e-mails, a file server and some industry specific software they need to run their business.
Another is a huge multinational corporation that has to keep a few data centers around to meet it's computing needs but IT is not their primary business.
Outsourcing your e-mail isn't quite the deal it looks like it is.
In some scenarios it's cheaper and in some it is not. It all depends on your situation.
For example: I managed IT in a school. M$ licenses cost almost nothing (due to school pricing). So right off the bat I get Exchange & Windows server for approx ~$260. I have a simple 2 server+ SAN setup with vmware & HA enabled on it. System is pretty redundant and solid. Never gone down except due to my own stupidity. If I outsource our e-mail, last I checked they wanted $15/month/account from Outlook.com I have about 150 accounts...so 15*150= $2250/month + tax for email. FOREVER.$27,000.00 /year. FOREVER. Say that was the non-special negotiated price. Ok 50% cheaper. It's still 13500/year FOREVER.
+ they can't get rid of me because somebody needs to manage the accounts (unlock passwords, new accounts, delete old accounts etc.), they can't get rid of the infrastructure (teachers & students need computers with network/internet = DHCP servers, firwalls, DNS servers blaa blaa), we can't easily cloud the other servers (it is doable but with a lot of effort and cost to redesigning how everything works here + mandatory increase in internet bandwidth offsets a lot of the savings), and guess what? Because you become hyperdependant of the internet always working, you still need to build in redundant systems (2 firewalls + 2 ISPs or else everything goes down when the internet goes down).
BTW Servers+SAN+VMWARE+VEEAM+misc (like a NAS to dump backups) cost approx $40k, ammortized in 5 years. Just 5 years of cloud email = $67,500 (at the cheaper rate). My salary was not included since either way I would be here. And btw that $40k also runs a bunch of other stuff that otherwise I would need to pay to have hosted elsewhere.
Cloud, is not always a solution.
There is absolutely no iteration of IOT that will ever be right.
Not until they make all programming 100% secure and bug proof. Which is at the moment impossible.
It's not just the hackers, the government could essentially kill you by disabling everything that keeps you alive (heating, ability to store and cook food, the ability to remain warm and sheltered etc etc.). No need for costly drones.
They will be able to track your every single breath...They will know when you cheated on your taxes just by looking at the quality of beer your purchased.....