It is no secret that these days that we live in two worlds. One real and one digital. Millennials will never know any different, well not until all the robots take over. But the is the digital world taking control of our real world? Can we keep up? Can we cope? How do we stay safe and free in the digital ecosphere?
From social networks to mobile banking to printers that order their own ink and fridges that order the weeks shopping to online dating for married couples to cheat and making new friends with perfect strangers in chatrooms to the internet of things and big data. How do we navigate this vast array of digital interactions and make sure we keep our privacy, our dignity, our bank balance and ourselves and our families safe and unmanipulated?
With Hackers being employed on mass by rogue governments, to our own government spies spying on our every keystroke and listening in on our conversations when we are sat around watching our smart tvs with our friends. To social engineers, tricksters and fraudsters worming their way into our systems and infrastructures. From big data used in digital marketing and advertising. To mass media and fake news. How do we keep safe?
With all the digital noise how do you discern the good from the bad? The real to the fake? How do we know who our kids or loved ones are talking to online or via smartphone app after app? And even if they are safe how do we know what these digital companies are doing with our data? Who they are selling it to, whether or not they are keeping it safe.
How are we manipulated by social engineers that want access to our bank account or big business that uses social psychological profiling, big data and behavioural economics to predict and nudge our decisions to align with their goals?
So that is a lot of questions. But what are the answers? Sorry, that’s another question. This blog has not posed any answers only thoughts to ponder. Via this site we might hopefully find some answers and ways to decipher and survive this digital ecosystem in live in.
