Foresight Future Identities (2013)
The UK's chief scientific adviser, Professor Sir John Beddington, has produced a new report - Future Identities,
which examines how the changes in technology,
politics, economics, the environment and demographics will affect the
development of society in the UK and how policy makers can best respond.
He concludes: mobile communications, the internet and social media will combine to
have a profound effect on UK society over the next decade as we enter an
era of always-on hyper-connectivity.
He sees Cybercrime as a 'Technology driver for change (3.2.4) and introduces the terms 'smishing' and 'vishing' (can you guess?). In section 4.2.6 he addresses 'crime and criminal justice'.
Eight Brilliant Minds on the Future of Online Education
Interesting report from Davos, with eight amazing speakers.
The advent of massively open online classes (MOOCs) is the single most important technological development of the millennium so far. Do you agree?
