Category: Opinion
A future world full of driverless cars… seriously?!
Driverless cars are an engineer’s dream. At last, a technology that promises to remove the human factor from the traffic system. By Alexa Delbosc
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Is someone watching you online? The security risks of the Internet of Things
The range and number of “things” connected to the internet is truly astounding, including security cameras, ovens, alarm systems, baby monitors and ca ...
Smart Cities Need a Dedicated, Long-Lived Machine Network
The rapid population growth in South Africa’s metropolitan cities over the last two decades has outpaced significantly the growth in capacity of their ...
Hacked by Your Fridge: the Internet of Things Could Spark a New Wave of Cyber Attacks
The past few weeks have seen a remarkable and somewhat alarming development in cyber security. It comes in the wake of a distributed denial of service ...
No need to panic – artificial intelligence has yet to create a doomsday machine
The possibility that advanced artificial intelligence (AI) might one day turn against its human creators has been repeatedly raised of late. Renowned ...
Rise of the machines: how computers could control our lives
Predicting the future is a risky business. If it wasn’t, we’d all be very wealthy by now. The Danish physicist Neils Bohr famously opined: “Prediction ...
Are we ready for a world even more connected in the Internet of Things?
Imagine a world that is even more connected technologically than ours today. By Philip Branch
That’s what the Australian Communications and Media A ...