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US air traffic control enters the 21st century, starts to abandon floppy disks
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2026
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It's not so much that new tech is bad ... new tech could be made to be ten times safer than what we have now.
The problem is that the new tech is controlled by psychopaths who want to squeeze as much profit out of everything imaginable ... imagine all that new tech controlling air traffic but its all locked up by proprietary software that would hold entire airports, agencies and governments hostage, or be made available to the highest bidder and even for international opponents or enemies ... and all of it up for grabs for profit and regardless of morals, ethics or human decency.