Networked Detection

Question Authority: The Life You Save May Be Your Own. Adam comments on the Wired article that showed 9/11 survivors were aided not by following instructions, but more through peer to peer information about the events as they unfolded from friends using Blackberries, cell phones, and such.

"But in a networked era, we have increasing opportunities to help ourselves. This is the real source of homeland security: not authoritarian schemes of surveillance and punishment, but multichannel networks of advice, information, and mutual aid."

John Quarterman wrote about the Anasazis alerting each other to attacks in Cliff Forts vs. Coordinated Mesas. P2P Detection and Response - is why we need WS-Anasazi.