Issue #6 (June 2022)
THE FUTURIAN Issue #6
The Editorial page can be accessed here.
We truly live in an information age. The development of computing over the past fifty years, combined with advances in networking technology and the miniaturisation of devices, have all combined to have changed radically the world in which we live. A simple glance at the world of 1972 will show how different things were in those days. Business was paper based. Systems were analogue. Travel was an exotic thing. Well, perhaps that hasn’t changed too much, but we now live in an age of relative mass travel. And yet, some aspects of the past fifty years still contain this anachronism. This is the topic of Issue #6 of The Futurian — the cyber world. We have a number of pieces that should provide food for thought:
Paul Tero starts this edition with a retrospective view of the economy from 2050, what our future history may look like. Click here to access the article.
Charlie Garrud then goes on to consider some of the future difficulties we may have in accessing our current data. Click here to access the article.
Kevin Jae asks about the threats posed by the ownership of our data and how the metaverse may change this. Click here to access the article.
Charlotte Aguilar-Millan follows on to examine the issue of the weightless corporation and the opportunities that creates. Click here to access the article.
Samyak Rai Leekha looks at how data processing can be moved into space and asks if this could be a new frontier of conflict. Click here to access the article.
Stephen Aguilar-Millan then asks when a cyber-attack could constitute an act of war. Click here to access the article.
We hope that you enjoy this range of articles. Please feel free to contact us if you have any feedback on the articles, or if you would like to write for future editions of The Futurian.
Stephen Aguilar-Millan
[email protected]
The Editorial page can be accessed here.
We truly live in an information age. The development of computing over the past fifty years, combined with advances in networking technology and the miniaturisation of devices, have all combined to have changed radically the world in which we live. A simple glance at the world of 1972 will show how different things were in those days. Business was paper based. Systems were analogue. Travel was an exotic thing. Well, perhaps that hasn’t changed too much, but we now live in an age of relative mass travel. And yet, some aspects of the past fifty years still contain this anachronism. This is the topic of Issue #6 of The Futurian — the cyber world. We have a number of pieces that should provide food for thought:
Paul Tero starts this edition with a retrospective view of the economy from 2050, what our future history may look like. Click here to access the article.
Charlie Garrud then goes on to consider some of the future difficulties we may have in accessing our current data. Click here to access the article.
Kevin Jae asks about the threats posed by the ownership of our data and how the metaverse may change this. Click here to access the article.
Charlotte Aguilar-Millan follows on to examine the issue of the weightless corporation and the opportunities that creates. Click here to access the article.
Samyak Rai Leekha looks at how data processing can be moved into space and asks if this could be a new frontier of conflict. Click here to access the article.
Stephen Aguilar-Millan then asks when a cyber-attack could constitute an act of war. Click here to access the article.
We hope that you enjoy this range of articles. Please feel free to contact us if you have any feedback on the articles, or if you would like to write for future editions of The Futurian.
Stephen Aguilar-Millan
[email protected]