Our Future Through Cyber Space
As we veer out of control on a crash course with destiny, I see the internet and “cloud” community becoming more and more important in our short lives. Almost every aspect of our lives, now, can be performed from the “comfort and safety” of our own homes with the use of a computer and an internet connection. Just look at this course for instance. It is being taught from the classroom of the future today. No student ever actually has to set foot on a college campus through the use of technology.
But it is this technology that will ultimately drive the communities of the planet to a One World Order. What no government or country has yet to acknowledge is the fact that more and more people are becoming part of cyber communities all linked together with one another around the world. Slowly becoming one community spread across the globe. I feel proof of this is the fact that Cyber Monday is starting to generate more revenue than Black Friday in the United States. Around the globe, businesses have seen a drop in customers in their stores, but the increase in cyber sales has actually increased their profits.
Organized crime has already adapted to this new lifestyle by taking advantage of people uneducated in the ways of the cyber society. And as more and more cities offer their citizens a free pass onto the internet, via WAN, without teaching them how to use it safely, they are falling prey to the cyber criminals and their treachery. Phishing, SPAM, and hacking are becoming the new way to rob a bank. You don’t need to physically walk in and hold it up anymore, just hack the network and hijack the accounts.
As the control of the world’s infrastructure is converted to the “cloud”, no two governing bodies will be able to control “THE” network. It will become the sole responsibility of one governing body, the ultimate organized crime syndicate. This governing body alone will control what we see and do over the “net”. Censorship will run rampant and out of control, and the netizens of the future will never know that their entire existence is being controlled by this governing body. Every aspect of their daily lives could be planned out for them and freedom as we know it now will become a thing of the past.
These are my greatest fears as we speed down the winding roads of life toward an unpredictable and unforeseeable future. Blink and you could miss something!!!!
Here is an interesting article on the subject:
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