In 1993, science fiction writer Bruce Sterling saw the internet as "a true, modern, functioning anarchy" - a borderless community with very few, if any, rules and regulations. Multi jurisdictional crime such as this is difficult to prevent...
As the visitors to the recent Star Trek-inspired 'Federation Science' exhibition at London's Science Museum mull over the technology within the science fiction series, people around them are walking around, freely talking on communicators the size...
But is a Minority Report style biometric future of billboards that scan your eyes and deliver personalised advertising and robot spiders that use biometric scans to catch criminals just science fiction or are those advances being made today?
Some digital content protection schemes prevent a PC from opening up protected files. At the same time, solutions for solving some of these problems don't necessarily jibe with how individuals conduct themselves online, said Ronald Rivest, a...
Science fiction novelist William Gibson has been exploring the relationship between technology and society ever since he burst on to the literary scene with his cyberpunk classic Neuromancer in 1984. You can see it in corporate futurism as easily...
CBI director-general Richard Lambert said the problem of getting the right talent is likely to worsen so there needs to be a focus on higher skilled and expert roles for the UK to thrive in the global market.