E-Fusion And Industry 4.0
We are currently experiencing an industrial revolution based on robotics, AI, bio-technology, IoT, and cybertronics and these tends are going to merge and combineto produce more innovative technologies in the fourth indsutial era - Industry 4.0 - a fusion that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres.
We now have mobile AI super-computing which imitates human thought, Intelligent robots, self-driving cars and biotechnology all of which has applications in major industrial areas, including health care, crop production and agriculture.
The US is currently cyber-attacking Russia’s power grid as Russia has been attacking the US’s systems. Both are engaged in offensive attacks and often use outside hackers so that they can claim that it has nothing to do with them. This is similar to how pirates were used in the 16/17th century by nations to attack other nations – they were called privateers with a government commission.
Cyberspace is now seen by senior military officers and officials as another “domain” of warfare, along with air, land, sea, and space but it’s effective purpose is still in debate.
In this era, the pace of technological development has again surpassed a nation’s ability to govern effectively.
We live in a time where security risks emerging from the threat of bio-weapons, nano-weapons, cyber-weapons. Several countries are now developing nano-weapons that can attack using mini-nuclear bombs and insect-like robots and the world has a digital nervous system.
These technologies include 3D commercial production, data driven vehicles, robotic, bio-technology, AI and there is a blurring of physical, digital and biological elements to create a new techno-reality. And of course this is also changing and bringing new types of criminal activity.
From 2000 to 2019, the number of global Internet users rose from 394 million to 4.2 billion, so over half the world’s population of 7.6 billion now use the Internet.
This process will globally connect and change all types of jobs within everything from education, business, transport, policing, the military to government. By connecting even more billions of people using mobile devices, electronic connections, storage capability, information accessibility and processing power this revolution will substantially increase the size of the interconnected world. However, cyberspace also includes hacker criminal threats, and the growing arena of cyber-warfare.
Currently Londoners are losing an average of £26 million a month in cyber-attacks on businesses and individuals. Thousands of cyber frauds are recorded in the capital each month, with phishing emails, ransomware and malware the most common scams. Senior Met officers warned fraudsters often target individual employees to bypass company security systems. Analysists suggest that about 73 per cent of frauds are carried out online, with many criminals based overseas, making it difficult for police in the UK to pursue a case.
The most popular cyber-criminal method is Phishing: where you receive an email that pretends to be from an authority (perhaps your bank, or maybe your boss) in which you’re asked to give out your passwords or personal information such as your address, telephone number, or other data.
Some thought leaderse are starting to come to terms with Artificial Intelligence, robotics and bio-technology after estimating how much it is going to change aspects of their professional work. Or, as some others predict, the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.
Stephen Hawking said that once humans really develop artificial intelligence, it will take off on its own and redesign itself at an ever-increasing rate.
He also said humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete and would be superseded. However now some others hope and believe that AI, robotics and bio-technology will even extend our life cycle, improve our memory and allow us to live a lot longer…Let’s hope they are right!
You Might Also Read:
