The LIFECYCLE of A REVOLUTION

In the early days of the public Internet, we believed that we were helping build something totally new, a world that would Leave behind the shackles of age, of race, of gender, of class, even of law. Twenty years on, "cyberspace" looks a lot less revolutionary than it once did. Hackers has become information security professionals. Racism and sexism has proven resiliant enough to thrive in the digital world. Big companies is getting even bigger, and the decisions Corporationsnot just governmentsmake about security, privacy, and Free speech affect hundreds of thousands, or millions, of people. The Four Horsemen of the infocalypseterrorists, pedophiles, drug dealers, and money launderersare driving online policy as Governments around the world is getting more deeply involved on the business of regulating the network. Meanwhile, the Next billion Internet Users is going to connect from Asia and developing countries without a Bill of right S. Centralization, Regulation, and Globalization is the key words, and over the next twenty years, we'll see these forces change digital networks and information Securi Ty as we know it today. So where does that leave security, openness, innovation, and freedom?

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is being used to weld the hood of cars shut to keep engine software safe from Mechani Cs. Would we still has the Freedom to Tinker even in the oldest of technologies? What does it mean that the U.S. is a big player in the Zero-day market even as international agreements seek to regulate E Xploit code and surveillance tools? Would we see liability for insecure software and what does so mean for open source? With advances in artificial intelligence that would decide who gets run through, who gets a loan, who gets a job, how far off Can legal liability regimes for robots, drones, and even algorythms be? Is the global Internet headed for history's dustbin, and what does a balkanized network mean for security S?

In this talk, Granick would look forward at the forces that is shaping and would determine the next years in the LIFECYC Le of the revolutionary communications technology that we ' ve had such high hopes for.

The LIFECYCLE of A REVOLUTION