Category: Books

• Click Here to Kill Click Here to Kill Everybody - Bruce Schneier. Security & survival in a hyper-connected world. Everything is a Computer, Bruce describes 3 situations: hacking a car, hacking the power supply & hacking printers. For each of these he explains the potential issues: death of multiple passengers; wide-scale human and economic damage; etc. As things get 'smarter' or more computerised, "your smart [ insert item here ] becomes a computer that also does X!"
  
  
• Looking back from 2057 Well, its been an exciting century for me starting with the launch of the Russian satellite, Sputnik in 1957 and ending with the first space elevator on my 100th birthday in 2057. Its also been a sad and depressing time too with various wars and conflicts but it all worked out for us all in the end.