Yeah, the future is the Dystopian-Cyberpunk-Anime future of the mega-corporation-government-states which own and control everything.
People may say that is too-dystopian and cynical of a perspective, but all data-points over the last several decades are very solidly pointing in this direction....
There will certainly be lots of 10B, 50B and 100B companies - then the 1-5T companies will consume them just as the 5B companies grabbed up everything they could to build their moats over the last few years.
There will be cyber-wars for privacy in the next 20 years. There will be digital outcasts who seek to hack and bring down large systems.
There will be plenty of cyber-terrorism to come.
Personally, I thin kthe US is sitting on its laurels way too much and will be completely unprepared for a real cyberwar when it actually happens.
Anyone know of some good authors with a contemporary grasp of where we currently are with technology who is putting out some good cyberpunk fiction about the impending future?
People may say that is too-dystopian and cynical of a perspective, but all data-points over the last several decades are very solidly pointing in this direction....
There will certainly be lots of 10B, 50B and 100B companies - then the 1-5T companies will consume them just as the 5B companies grabbed up everything they could to build their moats over the last few years.
There will be cyber-wars for privacy in the next 20 years. There will be digital outcasts who seek to hack and bring down large systems.
There will be plenty of cyber-terrorism to come.
Personally, I thin kthe US is sitting on its laurels way too much and will be completely unprepared for a real cyberwar when it actually happens.
Anyone know of some good authors with a contemporary grasp of where we currently are with technology who is putting out some good cyberpunk fiction about the impending future?