CGS-authored
Dramatic advances in science and technology are leading us into an unknown future with little citizen awareness, and a public policy framework that is behind the curve.
The advances go far beyond the expansion of the online world.
But let’s start with the fact that the privacy and security issues attendant to the online world are likely to get bigger and take newer forms as we employ the cloud to store and access data and software on the internet rather than our computing devices.
Big Data is expanding, and some entity of which you are not aware is capturing, aggregating, and processing an ever-higher volume, velocity, and variety of personal data for some purpose of which you are unaware.
We will engage in substantive conversation with our software (think Siri on steroids), while computing speeds go far beyond our present imagination. Our devices, whatever they may be, will become deeply immersed in the new “internet of things.” Devices will talk to each other aided by ubiquitous sensors and systems in our computers, phones, homes, cars and communities.
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