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    September 27, 2020

    Cybersecurity and Safety in the 5G-Enabled Smart-Everything World

    Neil Harbisson calls himself a cyborg. Without the antenna implanted in his skull, he would not be able to see colour of any kind. Born with achromatopsia, a condition of total colourblindness that affects 1 in every 30 000 people, Harbisson’s physical faculties are augmented by cyber technology to grant…
    November 16, 2018

    Cyber-Kinetic Risk – Unintended Consequence of IoT in a 5G World

    Getting smart about security in smart systems Smart used to be something we called people or pets. It wasn’t a term one would use to describe one’s hairbrush. That is changing, of course, in an era of accelerating digital transformation. Now we have smart homes, smart cities, smart grids, smart…
    March 31, 2015

    The World of Cyber-Physical Systems & Rising Cyber-Kinetic Risks

    Correction, 8 November 2026: An earlier version of this article gave the sewage released as more than 264,000 liters; the Abrams and Weiss case study puts it at about 800,000 liters. I have corrected the text below. We live in a world in which the way we observe and control…
    April 19, 2022

    Introducing Society 5.0

    Self-help authors and politicians seem to agree on at least one thing: mindset matters. The shelves of bookstores worldwide are awash with motivational books by evangelical writers hoping to convert readers to their gospel of optimism. The central thesis is simple: success depends on approaching life, especially its challenges, with…

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