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the last decade has transformed the way people and businessesthink about privacy, but with ever moretechnological advances seemingly just around the corner,is the real change still to come? in this final episode,i'll step into the near future and spend 24 hours in a smarthome where my every whimwill be catered for, but at what cost? technology liberates us to pursuethings we would rather be doing.
it always has done. back in iran,agriculture technologies let us domesticate barley,wheat and lentils, so we didn't have to constantlytravel to put food in our stomachs. we've spent our lives since thenlooking to reduce the heavy lifting. the industrial revolutionmeant hand-production methods were given over to machines. people could move to the city where the new middle classcould find other pursuits.
when automation hit the scene we also gave the heavy thinkingto these machines and they've become twice as smartevery two years. we've travelled to space and 20 years later we havethe same smarts in our pockets. we are now freer to want.want cheaper and faster. we allow machinesto do more of our work for us. 70% of all trades madeon the us stock market in 2011 were made by algorithms,not people.
we autofill, we store in the cloud,we find love with a swipe right. algorithmsand artificial intelligences process this information for us. however, today it seemswe serve computers. most of us spend more timegazing into our four-inch screens than into the eyes of our loved ones. smartphones are setting us an endlessstream of to-dos and check lists. in an attempte to alleviate this, companies are creatingnew connected products
to sense, learn and ultimatelypredict our every need. collectively,these products are known as iot or the internet of things. you may have heardof domestic applications of iot - curtains that raise with youin the morning, fridges that restock themselves, but what about the toiletsthat check your health and notify you if you're pregnant? iot is expanding across industries,from manufacturing to gardening,
from energy to mobility. it's estimatedthat presently 1% of everything that could be connectedto the internet is. imagine a world where the other 99% are also constantly sensing,storing and communicating data about every aspect of our lives. what kind of hardware systemsdoes the smarthome use? how do you see smarthomes changingpeople's lives in the future? so in japan a primary motivationfor this technology
is to provide a saferand more efficient environment, for their ageing population. but are there any drawbacks? i just had the experienceof being in a smarthome. are there any potentialprivacy implications that i should be worried about? i think that there are alreadya number of privacy implications, just because it's possibleto use various sensors to track your activities,to track your habits.
in some cases, i have heard ofincidences where you have a smarthome where there will be a camerabuilt into a device to allow for various metricsto be measured. but unwittingly allowing hackersto, say, peer into your living room and so everything is a two-sided coinwhere there are pros, but if the security isn't addressed,they could easily be used for a con and people fail to realise that. would you live in a smarthomeor work in a smartoffice? me, personally, i would love to
because then i can getmy hands dirty on all the devices - test them, find out issues. - hack them.- yes! but as a normal user,i would still be a little sceptical of what kind of devices i deploy. because the vendorswant to reach to the market quickly, they're not giving as much attentionto the security. they just want to quickly build it upand ship it. so that's wherethe major problem lies.
and then there are three majorattacks that we are going to see. one is the controlling app,the mobile, the client side. one is the device itself. and one is the cloud where thewhole user data is going to be saved. so we have to be very carefulon what kind of data is being saved and how it is being saved. as soon as this gets mass adoptionat the levels it will and as soon as more data gets online, how that's protected,how that could be erased,
how that could be forgotten - these issues, at least from ajapan context, has not been debated. around the worldthey're being addressed, but we're still in the infancy stageof what that really means. what should businesses be aware of when they're implementingiot strategies? when you deal with iotit's not an it issue, it is a management and risk issue,it involves the entire company. with that said,it's very, very important
that you do cyber securityat the design level, like the automobile or the airplane. if you think about it,these are designed security first in a transparent, background manner,and that's where we need to get to. there's little doubt thatthe internet of things is the future because we've sought out and embracedways to make our lives easier. but it's cleardevelopers and consumers need to think about privacyand not just as an afterthought. it might be useful for navigationfor my car to know my location,
but does it need accessto my social media accounts? does the information that iscollected by these devices need to be stored forever? if most of us striveto live in the moment, then perhaps so too should our data. with these devicesentering our homes and offices, building trust through ethical useof our personal and professional data will become crucial forthese technologies to truly succeed.