Privacy and Security 10 Predictions About the Future That Should Scare the Hell Out of You What can we foresee? Is there any guidance? Do we know what we don’t know? Do we know that we don’t know it? How about the stuff we know we know??? really? As Nostradamus, Cassandra, Tesla, Lovelock, Toffler […]
Information Attacks against Democracies
Democracy is an information system. That’s the starting place of our new paper: “Common-Knowledge Attacks on Democracy.” In it, we look at democracy through the lens of information security, trying to understand the current waves of Internet disinformation attacks. Specifically, we wanted to explain why the same disinformation campaigns that act as a stabilizing influence […]
The Coming Crime Wars
Future conflicts will mostly be waged by drug cartels, mafia groups, gangs, and terrorists. It is time to rethink our rules of engagement. Wars are on the rebound. There are twice as many civil conflicts today, for example, as there were in 2001. And the number of nonstate armed groups participating in the bloodshed is multiplying. According to the International […]
50 Grand Challenges for the 21st Century
We asked experts from the world of science and technology to describe the societal challenges that they think matter in 2017 and beyond. Over the past month, Future Now has been covering the “grand challenges” we face as a society in a series of articles, videos and graphics. We polled a panel of people […]