Military leaders conclude simpler technology less failure-prone, more reliable.
Not actual military leaders. The fictional military leadership of the re-imagined series Battlestar Galactica. The tech/gadget blog DVice - published by the Sci Fi Network, which airs BSG, points out the low-tech nature of the show’s fictional universe - which includes sound-powered telephone, a technology we’ve flogged here and in other forums - points this out in 9 Awesome Gadgets from Battlestar Galactica
Solid-State Tactical Planning Tools
Forget your holographic models or your CGI simulations, this is the way to plan a war: with not-to-scale models on a big table. Best of all, if you run out of pieces for something important, like Vipers, you can just substitute spare change or something.
Read the rest of 9 Awesome Gadgets from Battlestar Galactica - funny, yes, but a reminder that good emergency planning uses lots of redundancy and lots of simplicity - especially when tools are going to be used by people with little or no training.
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