Kevin; You are correct. These systems are going to be the most useful at the periphery of the disaster area, logging and triaging survivors and logging remains as they are removed from the affected areas. We saw in New Orleans that the first things to drop out were travel and network. There was a lot of emergency services that could not get into the affected area because of basic infrastructure failure (roads impassible, power and communications lines down, batteries running dry). Cell phones worked for a short time, until the batteries died. There were some satellite phones, but they were scarce and the bandwidth was not really very reliable. But having these systems on the edge of disaster is where they will find their greatest service.
hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net wrote: It would require network access, and that might be a problem in a disaster area. Kevin On 10/17/05, Thurman Pedigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://laptop.media.mit.edu/ > > http://web.media.mit.edu/~nicholas/ > > > > Negroponte proposed this product for education. With VistA loaded, think how > it could work in disaster health systems. I can't help wondering what it > would be like to be associated with a system that housed these three - > Negroponte, Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker. > > > > thurman ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Hardhats-members mailing list Hardhats-members@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hardhats-members
