Duck and Cyber: Berkeley Report Imagines Dark, Technology Driven Futures

The article summarizes the UC Berkeley "Cybersecurity Futures 2020" report, which explores five possible futures shaped by the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, and the political economy of data — from an "Intentional IoT" that improves public services to dystopian outcomes of pervasive cybercrime and surveillance — and argues that data governance, government standards, and evolving attacker-defender dynamics will determine whether the outcomes are beneficial or harmful.