Not just individual, also collective risk --- There is not just individual risk, but also collective risk that comes with being part of a hyper-connected world. There is a threat to communities and democracies from both corporations and governments who are and can use the internet to control and manipulate groups of people for their own ends. In recent years, this has already happened for instance with election interference in the US and UK elections but in a limited capacity. Taken to its extreme in a much more connected, future world, with fully developed cyber-weapons, it could mean endless war, death of states, colonisation of land and resources globally by a few, complete fascism and loss of all individual and collective liberty.

Source author: Pavitra Ramanujam pavitra.ramanujam@gmail.com