While cyberspace and social media have grabbed global headlines in recent years, other major technology clusters will have an even more seismic impact on geopolitics in coming decades… National-Interest-Geotechnology-Jan-2013
Over the last years we have witnessed changes as we analyzed criminal trends and elaborated new strategies to confront crime. New scenarios have emerged, which have obliged us to improve knowledge and to rethink strategies. These changes are the direct consequences of a wired world driven by global markets where frontiers are abolished mainly in […]
Rapid advances in robotics technology for the battlefield and policing could promote a new breed of copycat “garden shed” robot criminals. The Coming Robot Crime Wave
The Emerging Consensus on Criminal Conduct in Cyberspace
Marc Goodman paints a portrait of a grave future, in which technology’s rapid development could allow crime to take a turn for the worse…
The world isn’t run by weapons anymore, or energy, or money, it’s run by ones and zeros — little bits of data. It’s all electrons …. There’s a war out there, a world war. It’s not about who has the most bullets. It’s about who controls the information– what we see and hear, how we […]
When 10 men attacked the Taj Mahal Palace hotel in Mumbai, in November 2008, they executed one of the best-orchestrated, most technologically advanced terrorist strikes in history… Before the assault they had used Google Earth to explore 3-D models of the target and determine optimal entry and exit routes, defensive positions, and security posts. During […]
The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States brought the notion of terrorism as a clear and present danger into the consciousness of the American people. In order to predict what might follow these shocking attacks, it is necessary to examine the ideologies and motives of their perpetrators, and the methodologies that terrorists […]