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In a time and place not to far away

Scenario – In a time and place not to far away

The things we took for granted back in the mid to late 80’s and 90’s simply no longer hold true in today’s times. We now like so many other countries live in a society of barriers and boundaries. The Leaders of the world’s freest nation now have to be kept further away from them, because of the potential harm and danger to them. We now live were barriers and barricades have been erected around the most public of places and buildings, most of these were once easily and freely entered, now they are called target’s and are not as accessible as before for fear of being bombed or having a gas attack against them.

This is all based on an elusive, faceless enemy that we know little about and even less how they may or will strike next, it could be another bombing or it could be an attack on our information infrastructure. The inherent danger here lies with and in the general acceptance of what we are told is the normal and standard. That we accept without question the explanation and that if you question, go against or defy the normal, then you can be automatically labeled a threat to this system, which is said to be in place to help protect you and thus labeled a terrorist and hunted down for the good of society.

It today’s society most people have not experienced the world or the internet as we have in the earlier days while still developing and in general as research tools and information sharing network, they have only recently seen how and what it can be used for, identity theft, worms, viruses distribution and exploitation. I feel that if the current trends hold true and the if we do not find a way to better control the traffic and hostilities that we have seen escalate over the years, then the internet will become, if it has not already become, one of the next major battle grounds along with the conventional style of warfare and terrorism. This will ensure that our children and our children’s children will face a world of elevated national alerts, more hostilities by unseen faceless forces and hostilities and lack of trust of foreigners.

I feel that could also lead to the destruction of certain civil-liberties which this country and other countries have lived by and were founded on, but the worst case is that we live in a constant and ever present fear of will or may happen next and this will not go away and then we turn into one of those country’s that we see on the one the many news channels. Then other countries will look to us as third world.

This is the world we live in now, and for the near future, the length and time we have these issues to face will be determined over the next few years. This is the world that we have built for ourselves a good quote is that ` We have let our advances in technology outpace and strip away at our Humanity`. This has lead us to forget about the morals and values that most our parents tried to and did teach us. The final outcome or end result will be based on decisions made by and guided by the people and the push for better controls, and the desire to seek knowledge and education to that fact. Only we will be able to determine how far over the edge and into a technological nightmare we get pulled, and thus the length and level of the online battles we fight and loose. It is my opinion that the online cyber-battles will like that of nuclear war, no one really win’s on loses