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Name: Cormac
Bio: No directly relevant qualification.
Area of Expertise: Research Scientist/Illuminator
Topic: Information Infrastructure
Headline: Future Trends?
Nutshell: Invasive/pervasive culture saturated with marketing and obsessed with virus/worm/data-miner attacks and counterattacks.
Vision:An increasingly market-driven field will make use of more sophisticated marketing techniques, including "adaptave advertising" – a method by which an advertising module/script adapts based on the device and/or person using it. The darker side of this is these modules could also be used as vectors for viruses worms and data miners. due to the complexity of the code being used, many loopholes and flaws will exist to be exploited.
Vision summary: pervasive technology, including specifically adapted chips and systems embedded in humans, being manufactured and driven by a market economy, advertising to a level that becomes dangerously vulnerable to virus/worm/data-miner attacks.
Date Submitted: November 11, 2004
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