The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move? Author: Patrick Tucker | Language: English | ISBN:
1591845866 | Format: PDF
The Naked Future: What Happens in a World That Anticipates Your Every Move? Description
An in-depth look at the future of the future.
An app on your phone knows you're getting married before you do. Your friends' tweets can help data scientists predict your location with astounding accuracy, even if you don't use Twitter. Soon, we'll be able to know how many kids in a kindergarten class will catch a cold once the first one gets sick.
We are on the threshold of a historic transition in our ability to predict aspects of the future with ever-increasing precision. Computer-aided forecasting is poised for rapid growth over the next ten years. The rise of big data will enable us to predict not only events like earthquakes or epidemics, but also individual behavior.
Patrick Tucker explores the potential for abuse of predictive analytics as well as the benefits. Will we be able to predict guilt before a person commits a crime? Is it legal to quarantine someone 99 percent likely to have the superflu while they're still healthy? These questions matter, because the naked future will be upon us sooner than we realize.
- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Current Hardcover (March 6, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1591845866
- ISBN-13: 978-1591845867
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 5.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
In today’s environment of the discussion between security and privacy, Tucker’s book claims that it will be no contest. Data will flow to those who seek it as automated data systems interact with each other. Despite mistakes and hacking, most of us give away critical data about ourselves on a daily basis. So, transparency in the future will be needed to conduct business, interact with friends and family, and entertain ourselves.
I stated at a 2010 cyber conference that we’ve already seen the death of security and privacy. Security will never be 100%, so we must mitigate the risks as best we can and plan cost effective protections and preventions. Privacy is lost because we need to transmit personal information digitally (which is persistent) for everyday transactions – shopping, groceries, gas, business conferences, banking, bill paying, etc.
Tucker believes that this “telemetric age” will occur in the next two decades. I believe it’ll be sooner. My own predictions, as mentioned above, have shown how we daily propagate our personal information in social media (e.g., Facebook, Twitter) and while conducting digital business with persistent record storage. Add to that the almost daily news of hackers (and possibly other non-state actors) scraping our financial networks for nefarious purposes.
His predictions of genetic engineering, I agree, has come a long way and will be significant in the near future in medical applications. For good or for bad, these developments will be shaping health care for the future.
The world of the Minority Report movie is already here: Facial and eye recognition, customized advertisements, on-the-go media presentations, and using the mind and genetics to predict crime.
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