The 21st century cyberspace

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Babulak, E. ; Sch. of Comput., Inf. & Math. Sci., Univ. of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji. The author discusses the development of new Information Communications ...
The 21st century cyberspace Babulak, E. ; Sch. of Comput., Inf. & Math. Sci., Univ. of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji

The author discusses the development of new Information Communications Technologies (ICT) in the areas of e-Learning, e-Health, e-Government, e-Journalism, etc. The current Web 2.0 combined with the 3D Telepresence, Future Internet, Semantic Web Technologies provide support to creation of social networks, content retrieval and analysis, which creates foundation for the future fully automated cyberspace. Current dynamic Internet developments and continuous demand for the ubiquitous connectivity combined with the next generation of networks contributes towards creation the future cyberspace infrastructures worldwide. Implementation of the cyberspace in the government and corporate infrastructures, contributes towards creation of new paradigm in the decision making processes. Decisions that are currently governed by the human intelligence knowledge and intuition may be influenced by the cyber-data and processes. Future cyberspace will ultimately impact the decision making processes by government, corporate, industrial and academic institutions worldwide. In conclusion the author promotes discussion on the social and ethical impact of the future cyberspace and ICT technologies in the context of governance vs. privacy. Published in: Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics (SAMI), 2010 IEEE 8th International Symposium on Date of Conference: 28-30 Jan. 2010 Page(s): 21 - 24 Print ISBN: 978-1-4244-6422-7 INSPEC Accession Number: 11157235 Conference Location : Herlany DOI: 10.1109/SAMI.2010.5423748 Publisher: IEEE http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=5423748