That was my First Experience with computers. Since then, with the centrality of computers to my life but all of our lives is almost impossible to fathom. For example, we live in a world where every year over 40 trillion emails are said to. The first read page was made 1991 now there are 30 trillion individual web pages it is no longer about compiling and sharing information but also to have an impact on the world beyond the online domain through the internet to of things. Cisco systems estimates of the next five years there will be more than 40 million internet enabled devices coming on line for refrigerators, cars, the thermostats google just paid a couple billion dollars for a thermostat business all linking together. So that means domains that range from communication, carvers, the infrastructure or conflict 90 percent of military communications run over civilian owned operated internet these are increasingly cyberdepended that we live in the digital age. These networks they are lin
Hopefully the technology will work for us and we havent been hacked in the interim. Here we go. To move on why a book about cybersecurity and cyberwar and why now . For me, its best encapsulated by two quotes. The first is from president obama. He declared that cybersecurity risks posed quote a most serious economic and National Security challenges of the 21st century the second quote is from a former cia director who said quote rarely has something been so important and so talked about with less and less clarity and less apparent understanding. So that cross between something that is in front of me and important but less and less understanding again you can see it in all sorts of different ways and all sorts of different fields. For example 70 of business executives, and not 70 of cto circe s. Oz but executives in general have made some kind of cybersecurity decision for their Company Despite the fact that no Major Business Management Program teaches it as part of the normal responsib
From the Stevens Institute of technology in hoboken new jersey, this is an hour. [applause] thank you. I want to thank the deans of stevens to helping to host this and to john in particular for both organizing it and the kind introduction. So i am old enough that i remember the very first time i ever saw and then used a computer. My dad took me to a Science Center in North Carolina at the age of seven where he learned how to program this amazing device to design a smiley face out of a series of letter ms and then i printed out on one of those oldschool principles with the perforated paper on the side that was my First Experience with computers. Since then the centrality of computers to my life but all our lives is its almost impossible without them. For example we live in a world where every year over 40 trillion emails are sent. The first webpage was made in 1991. There is now more than 30 trillion individual webpages out there. Moreover, the internet is no longer about compiling and
Good evening, and welcome to tos meeting of the Commonwealth Club of california, the place where youre in the know. You can find the Commonwealth Club on the internet at commonwealthclub. Org. Im Andrew Leonard from salon. Com, your moderator for this evenings program. To my left is Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew Mcafee who are researchers at the Mit Sloan School of management. Erik is the directer of the mit center for Digital Business and andrew is the Principal Research scientist. The two men made a name for themselves a couple of years ago with their selfpublished book, race against the machine, which kind of coalesced some emerging nervousness about the fact that automation is really beginning to replace jobs at higher and higher levels. They followed this up with a bigger book, the second machine age work, progress and prosperity in a time of brilliant technologies. And its really, i think everybody in this room will understand how timely this is. In the San Francisco and greater b
New Technology Developed but for the cycles to change that we can bring this to keep track of where colleagues are they had this tablet attached and this lasted an hour and a half in the second issue is we talk about the militaryindustrial complex and we have a real challenge in the sense that cybersecurity is not achieved without agility. What are we going to get to a point when providing cyberassistance to countries that are being attacked by countries that are not just a physical neighbors but advocates, this is critical. So what should we do about upcoming . They are trying to organize against western targets. Is there a military strategy there, i dont know, but that needs to be in the conversation. Is interesting is what the russians you have this one fighter problem and 15,000 that are coming in the civil war in syria in one side or the other. In the third upcoming from this as well. So it really is a global problem and they are sending this and sending Software Engineers to come