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http://www.businessinsider.com/expert-internet-for-our-kids-to-be-fundamentally-less-awesome-2013-11The Internet has become an increasingly dangerous place and this may only be the beginning, asserts Jay Healey, Director of the Cyber Statecraft Initiative at Atlantic Council.
"I am gravely doubtful that our kids and grandkids are going to have an Internet and cyber space that is fundamentally as awesome as the one that we had," he said. "It's probably going to be less free, less secure, and less resilient than the one that we had."
Through a combination of espionage and complex cyber weapons, the Pentagon has succeeded in militarizing the Internet at breakneck speed. The risks of this arms race are not just the obliteration of Internet anonymity, but the opening of a Pandora's Box in which relatively cheap weapons can do ridiculous amounts of real-world destruction.
"In cyberspace, criminal organizations, activists such as Anonymous and other private groups, as well as the odd lone hacker, have already displayed disruptive power. Terrorist groups are surely not far behind," wrote The New Yorker's Stevel Coll last year.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/expert-internet-for-our-kids-to-be-fundamentally-less-awesome-2013-11#ixzz2lTBpdNv5
RC
(25,592 posts)Declare the Internet dangerous as an excuse to heavily regulate and censer it.
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)that pretty much foretold the advent of the internet and the control of information>>> The Shockwave Rider. Brunner even described what he term "computer worm".
Read this book
randome
(34,845 posts)Those are two diametrically opposed ideals. You can push the pendulum temporarily one way or the other but it will always swing back.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Don't ever underestimate the long-term effects of a good night's sleep.[/center][/font][hr]
Alkene
(752 posts)It's already too late; robots are everywhere, and they eat old people's medicine for fuel!
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Just saying...
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)There's always Dark Net.
And there will be a Darker Net beyond that...if needed.
Freedom of the human mind began with the printing press.
And Ham Radio. Some simple circuitry and the antenna. Twist the dial and speak to the world.