What we’re trying to do is to see over the horizons, looking at essentially a five‐year time frame, and identify what will be the cybersecurity landscape in that context.
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Projecting the Future of Cyberspace
presented by Betsy Cooper

The Spawn of Frankenstein: Unintended Consequences
presented by Cara LaPointe, Joey Eschrich, Samuel Arbesman, Susan Tyler Hitchcock
Victor’s sin wasn’t in being too ambitious, not necessarily in playing God. It was in failing to care for the being he created, failing to take responsibility and to provide the creature what it needed to thrive, to reach its potential, to be a positive development for society instead of a disaster.

The Spawn of Frankenstein: It’s Alive
presented by Ed Finn
Mary Shelley’s novel has been an incredibly successful modern myth. And so this conversation today is not just about what happened 200 years ago, but the remarkable ways in which that moment and that set of ideas has continued to percolate and evolve and reform in culture, in technological research, in ethics, since then.

Rise of the Hacker Industrial Complex
presented by Niloofar Howe
We have basically lost control over our network. All of the advances that have made our lives more productive, more accessible, more connected, have fundamentally disintermediated our ability to protect our environments. The democratization of information, of technology, of goods and services, of banking, of financial transactions with blockchain etc., means every aspect of our lives has become accessible and therefore vulnerable.

A #Netfreedom Agenda for the 45th POTUS
presented by Amie Stepanovich, Daniel Calingaert, David A. Gross, Nilmini Rubin, Rebecca MacKinnon
In addition to freedom to connect, there also needs to be the ability to connect, and that we need to model best practice at home and around the world, and the policies that relate to that.

Who and What Will Get to Think the Future?
presented by Ed Finn, Ted Chiang
There’s already a kind of cognitive investment that we make, you know. At a certain point, you have years of your personal history living in somebody’s cloud. And that goes beyond merely being a memory bank, it’s also a cognitive bank in some way.

Robert Reich’s Advice for the Next President
presented by Robert Reich
The next President is probably going to have to deal with some very difficult economic times. The housing market is starting to look like a bubble. There’s a possibility of that bubble bursting. We’ve been there before.