Technology?
Phones – we used to dial them in my day! Now, we stick them in our pocket/purse/handbag…
TV – Gargantuan edifices; started rabbit ears, black and white, poor reception. We have gone digital now!
ID – Fingerpints/signature/facial recognition – ID cards…
I simply state what I have seen in my time!
Transportation?
This IS the particular of the FUTURE!
https://onlinemasters.ohio.edu/blog/5-advancements-in-transportation-technology/
Self driving cars?
https://www.mercedes-benz.com/en/mercedes-benz/innovation/research-vehicle-f-015-luxury-in-motion/
Once, Egypt was the center for advancement! This same area again rises up!
Again, we could go deeper, but I simply wanted to point out the known.
Technology – our ‘friend’? Let us take a look:
1. 5G Networks
Spain’s National 5G Plan for 2018-2020 stipulates that throughout 2019, pilot projects based on 5G will be developed resulting in the release of the second digital dividend. Hence, the groundwork is being laid so that in 2020 we will be able to browse the Internet on a smartphone at a speed that will reach 10 gigabytes per second. Data from Statista, a provider of market and consumer data, indicates that by 2024, 5G mobile network technology will have reached more than 40 percent of the global population, with close to 1.5 billion users.
2. Artificial Intelligence (AI)
This trend has appeared in all the lineups for a few years now, but everything indicates that this year will be the year it takes off definitively. This is the year we’ll see its democratization, while it is even included in the political agenda. At the beginning of December, the European Commission released a communication on AI directing the member states to define a national strategy addressing this topic by mid-2019.
3. Autonomous Devices
In respect to the previous point robots, drones, and autonomous vehicles are some of the innovations in the category the consulting firm Gartner labels “Autonomous Things” defined as the use of artificial intelligence to automate functions that were previously performed by people. This trend goes further than mere automation using rigid programming models, because AI is now being implemented to develop advanced behavior, interacting in a more natural way with the environment and its users.
4. Blockchain
Blockchain technology is another topic that frequently appears on these end of year lists. It has now broken free from an exclusive association with the world of cryptocurrencies; its usefulness has been proven in other areas. In 2019 we will witness many blockchain projects get off the ground as they try to address challenges that still face the technology in different fields like banking and insurance. It will also be a decisive year for the roll-out of decentralized organizations that work with intelligent contracts.
5. Augmented Analytics
This trend represents another stride for big data, by combining it with artificial intelligence. Using machine learning (automated learning), it will transform the development, sharing, and consumption of data analysis. It is anticipated that the capabilities of augmented analytics will soon be commonly adopted not only to work with data, but also to implement in-house business applications related to human resources, finance, sales, marketing and customer support – all with the aim to optimize decisions by using deep data analysis.
6. Digital Twins
A digital twin is a virtual replica of a real-world system or entity. Gartner predicts that there will be more than 20 billion sensors connected to end points by 2020, but the consulting firm goes on to point out that there will also be digital twins for thousands upon thousands of these solutions, with the express purpose of monitoring their behavior. Initially, organizations will implement these replicas, which will continue to be developed over time, improving their ability to compile and visualize the right data, make improvements, and respond effectively to business objectives.
7. Enhanced Edge Computing
Edge computing is a trend that relates most specifically to the Internet of Things. It consists in placing intermediate points between connected objects. Data can be processed at these intermediate points, thus facilitating tasks that can be performed closer to where the data has been received, thus reducing traffic and latency when responses are sent. With this approach, processing is kept closer to the end point rather than having the data sent to a centralized server in the cloud. Still, instead of creating a totally new architecture, cloud computing and edge computing will be developed as complementary models with solutions in the cloud, administered as a centralized service that runs not only on centralized servers but also on distributed servers and in the edge devices themselves.
8. Immersive Experiences in Smart Spaces
Chatbots integrated into different chat and voice assistance platforms are changing the way people interact with the digital world, just like virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR). The combination of these technologies will dramatically change our perception of the world that surrounds us by creating smart spaces where more immersive, interactive, and automated experiences can occur for a specific group of people or for defined industry cases.
9. Digital Ethics and Privacy
Digital ethics and privacy are topics that are receiving more and more attention from both private individuals as well as associations and government organizations. For good reason, people are increasingly concerned about how their personal data is being used by public and private sector organizations. Therefore, we conclude that the winning organizations will be those that proactively address these concerns and are able to earn their customers’ trust.
This is just the beginning! Could we ‘fly’? Planes now exist!
Cars? There were Cattle, Camels, Horses…
We could get lost in a morass of ‘data’… Identification prior to fingerprinting was ‘labeling’
Even before the existence of ‘technology’ – photos and ‘modern’ identification…there was ‘marking’ of your ‘property’. Man has NOT changed!
As we see, things have come a far ‘distance’! Advanement? This makes me laugh. It WAS and HAS ALL been known before time!
Thousands of years ago – Millenia actually, to an individual who did NOT understand what he was shown, but wrote it as instructed! Was shown ‘technology’. Identification!
There’s a Secret Meaning Behind The Devil’s Number 666
We’ve all heard about the infamous number 666, which is rather cryptically referred to as the “number of the beast” in the New Testament, and has more recently become known as the number of the Antichrist.
But what is it about this simple, symmetrical number that’s been giving everyone the heebie jeebies for the past 2,000 years? It’s just a number, right? Or is it…?
As the boys from Numberphile explain, 666 doesn’t really have any remarkable mathematical properties, but if you look back into its history, it reveals something pretty incredible about the way the Bible was originally written.
Turns out, what you see in the The Book of Revelation where the writer refers to 666 in an apocalyptic vision isn’t entirely what you get.
Put simply, 666 is being used as a code, and not a particularly subtle one, if you were alive and literate at the time of the New Testament.
This text was originally written in ancient Greek, where numbers are written as letters, as they are in Hebrew – the other main language of the original Biblical texts.
For small numbers, the first letters of the Greek alphabet, alpha, beta, gamma, represent 1, 2, and 3.
Then like in Roman numerals, when you want to form big numbers like 100, 1,000, 1,000,000, they’re represented by their own special combination of letters.
“Now what this means is that every word also has a numerical value,” says Pete in the video above. Keep that in mind.
So back to the Bible, where in Chapter 13 of The Book of Revelation, it reads: “Let the one with understanding reckon the meaning of the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man. His number is 666.”
As the video explains, the English word “reckon” comes from the Greek word for “calculate” or “solve”. “So it’s almost as if the text is saying, ‘I’m gonna give you a riddle, you need to calculate the number of the Beast,'” says Pete.
So what does the number 666 mean when you translate it out using the Greek alphabet?
Well, given the hatred of the Roman Empire at the time, and particularly its leader, Nero Caesar, who was considered to be especially evil, many historians have been looking for references of this in the Biblical text, which was not written in a vaccuum, and was very much a product of its time.
When you actually look at the original text, you’ll see that in this passage, the letters of 666 are actually written in Hebrew, which places a higher significance on numbers meaning words and words meaning numbers than ancient Greek. The writer was very clearly trying to tell us something.
And sure enough, if you translate the Hebrew spelling of 666, you actually spell out Neron Kesar – the Hebrew spelling of Nero Caesar.
Even if you take the alternative spelling of the number of the beast, which has been found in several early Biblical texts as being written 616, you can translate that out as being Nero Cesar.
“It adds to the kind of complexity of it kind of being a riddle, a secret,” says Pete in the video above.
“No one wants to write a book under imperial persecutions saying, ‘The root of all evil is Nero Caesar.’ You’re not going to spell that out.”
Now, when I said 666 doesn’t have any particularly remarkable mathematical properties, that’s not entirely true, because it’s actually what’s known as a triangle number.
To find out what that means, and to understand more about the connection of the devil’s number to the roulette table.
It does not even begin to unravel here!
Here are some trends we expect to dominate the year ahead:
1. The smart house will become their best friend or their worst enemy.
We’ve heard all the jokes about Alexa. But this is just the beginning. Gartner says that by 2020 there will be over 26 billion connected devices. Other predictions raise that number to over 100 billion. The race to launch new IoT products is on. And as people, apps, and devices become more connected than ever before, the physical and digital worlds are on a crash course. This year, we expect organizations will realize an increasingly urgent need to address the risks that come alongside the exciting promise of IoT. New attacks will rise. And as the IoT continues to expand across uses, devices, and demographics, they are all going to need trusted, verified identities to form the basis of security and trust.
2. Organizations will realize the EU’s data protection regulation has worldwide impact.
How companies prepare and how the GDPR regulation is enforced will be a top security question among boards. Unless you’ve been on a remote island, you know Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) means companies will be required to develop plans and processes to comply with requirements to protect their customers’ personally identifiable information (PII). Vendor security will become critical. The GDPR (coming into effect on May 25, 2018) and privacy shield require companies to perform deeper vendor security due diligence than before.
With several high profile and even more low-profile 2017 data breaches, how a company deals with personal data will need to be evaluated. And don’t forget about mobile. And as COS Online reports, “64 percent of employees access customer, partner, and employee PII using mobile devices. That creates a unique set of risks for GDPR non-compliance,” according to CSO Online. There are sure to be more unforeseen issues for global business and with them heavy fines.
3. Blockchain will disrupt the world of identity.
In its top predictions for IT organizations and users in 2018 and beyond, Gartner predicts that by year-end 2020, the banking industry will derive $1 billion in business value from the use of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies. Blockchain already is synonymous with finance. But we see the implications for a multitude of use cases such as government, smart property/IOT, and insurance. It also has implications for identity and protecting digital identities. Passports, personal identification, birth, and other important documents would be able to be used with one digital ID account. “Online identity and reputation will be decentralized. We will own the data that belongs to us.” William Mougayar, author The Business Blockchain: Promise, Practice, and Application of the Next Internet Technology (2016)
4. KBA will come under even more scrutiny.
You may have heard news about the recent chip flaws affect almost every computer, smartphone and tablet on the planet. The recently-discovered Intel chip flaws “would enable a hacker to access secret passwords or photos from desktops, laptops, cloud servers, or smartphones,” according to Reuters. Now consider that the mobile app Millennials used the most in 2017 was Amazon and Facebook was the most mobile app used over all by both Android/Apple users. The data captured from a single hack could be catastrophic. Furthermore, recognize that smartphones house apps that use Facebook as a form of KBA to access a wide range of other accounts. Couple this with the financial, personal, and behavioral data housed within these mobile apps and devices and you can begin to see the hackers’ pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Is it time to move beyond KBA for identity verification? Yes.
5. Biometric facial recognition will challenge fingerprints as a trusted user authentication method.
We predict the trend toward facial recognition will continue in 2018. While fingerprint scanning has been a widely accepted form of identity confirmation, just as quickly as a new smartphone release, we see the move to facial recognition. The move doesn’t come as a huge surprise when you see how Facebook has used facial recognition to help quickly tag your friends and family to your photos. And how millennials and younger generations have clamored to Snapchat to add fun facial recognized filters. And most recently, opening to mixed reviews, Apple’s iPhone X brought facial recognition to the forefront. “Apple’s always been the sign of acceptance for the tech industry,” Todd Mozer, CEO of Sensory, told Digital Trends. “We saw it with Siri and speech recognition and now we’re seeing it with face authentication. Having Apple and Samsung do it makes it pretty standard for mobile phones, but we’re seeing it start to penetrate other areas too. There seems to be a broad move towards face authentication right now.”
6. Businesses will find new ways to achieve security and fraud prevention without hurting the user experience.
Businesses make customers jump through hoops to prove who they are. And for seemingly good reason as security breaches have made headlines this past year. The issue isn’t as simple as being secure, but doing it in a way where the user experience isn’t impacted. Gartner Analyst Tricia Philips notes that when given the choice, “65% (of new users) chose to login with Facebook connect.” Why? Because it’s fast and easy. The point being, if there isn’t a seamless customer experience, users will find someone who provides both the security and experience they are looking for. Users have a choice but is Facebook the most secure connection? Companies need to show they can verify customer identities, protect customer data from security breaches, and simultaneously treat their customers/users like they are number one, instead of criminals.
7. Augmented intelligence will join the fight against identity fraud.
The rise of machine learning is nothing new as organizations look to increase their automated processes. However, as companies double down, so do fraudsters. Cybercriminals have adopted the technology to gain access to identity information through CAPTCHA bypass, data gathering, phishing, and ever-present malware attacks. Without the speed and advancements of artificial intelligence to fight cyber criminals, organizations leave themselves open to greater security threats.`Augmented intelligence, an alternative conceptualization of artificial intelligence, takes it one step further by focusing on AI’s assisted role to enhance human intelligence. And when it comes to identity fraud, it’s important to not only have a stronger but also a smarter intelligence. We see the trend toward augmented intelligence advancing strongly in the year(s) ahead.
Trust and security are increasingly top of mind for organizations across industries. All the while, organizations are competing on the basis of a positive, seamless user experience.
As we stated above, what is happening has always been known! So much so that EVERYTHING is known!
If you think I speak lightly, be my guest and read Ecclesiastes and the book of Revelation in The Bible!
“What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.”
Ecclesiastes 1:9
“And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.”
Revelations 22:19
http://www.revelationunderstoodcommentary.com/revelation-commentary-blog.html
Like we said, an inexhaustible amount of data!
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/570946/&ved=2ahUKEwivuoGn4onhAhUQnOAKHQO-CmcQFjAAegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw13CkEGVfLlNPQqvoFr88K4&cf=1
So, if accused of ‘stirring-trouble’, I laugh. Technology/Identification – one and the same!
Being a “scientist”, if there was an individual in an incident such as an accident that resulted in a loss of consciousness; would the ability to access data not be key? History? Medical/Social/Criminal/Identification.
ALL an officer of the law – authorized would need is a scanner and all the information is available! Allergies, Medications, Diagnosis; Home/business address/next of kin etc.
A LEGAL way to access information!
Traveling? Passports/Tickets/ID/Money? Hmm! On you/with you/IN you!
Internal passport used to mean something else!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_passport_of_Russia
A taste?
https://www.charismanews.com/opinion/73094-usa-today-warns-you-will-get-microchipped
So; let us see exactly where this was said thousands of years ago:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
We read:
“And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon. And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
The Mark of the Beast
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.”
Revelations 13:11-18
We touched on this above; but I will subtly point out again:
“And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.”
This IS written! There was NO ‘technology’ as this then! Way above, I started with things that have changed in my time…albeit VERY short!
In past days we have shared how things are. There is NO place that says it will be EASY.
BUT, we are pummeled into submission by The Word!
https://www.openbible.info/topics/journey
Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus.
“Then Jesus told His disciples, “If anyone would come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it. For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?”
Matthew 16:24-26 (ESV)
I simply want to set a few things in your spirit to mull over and prepare yourself!