Navigating in a world without secrets

As the volume of data grows worldwide, people's talent for managing it seems to dwindle.

Within the next 10 years the convergence of multiple technologies will thrust people into a world without secrets.

The digitisation of almost every activity - shopping, socialising , driving our cars or sitting quietly at home - means that most activities of people and their machines will be recorded.

Ongoing gaps in security mean that almost anybody who wants to know anything badly enough, will find it. The huge quantities of information generated in this world are a burden, a social and political wedge, a threat and an opportunity.

The world without secrets is a place where everything is recorded, anything recorded can be acquired, and far too much information is available.

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