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Marc Goodman
Former Futurist-in-Residence, F.B.I.
Marc Goodman is focused on the disruptive impact of advancing technologies on security, business, and international affairs. He has spent a career in law enforcement and technology. He was appointed futurist-in-residence with the FBI, worked as a senior adviser to Interpol, and served as a street police officer. As the founder of the Future Crimes Institute and the Chair for Policy, Law, and Ethics at Silicon Valley's Singularity University, he continues to investigate the intriguing and often terrifying intersection of science and security, uncovering nascent threats and combating the darker sides of technology.
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The successful decoding of the human genome was a phenomenal scientific achievement. For the first time in the world’s history, the entire genetic code of the human species was fully available to […]
Increasingly innovative computer scripts are being created that automate entire criminal processes—processes that, in the past, used to require human intervention. Don’t like your boss? Threaten to tell his wife […]
Crowdsourcing began as a legitimate tool to leverage the wisdom of the crowds to solve complex business and scientific challenges. Unfortunately, these very same techniques are increasingly being adopted by the criminal underground for nefarious purposes.
As we come to rely more and more upon technology as a filter for our own life experiences, opportunities to bend reality abound. In theory, none of this is new. […]
Recently a company in the Netherlands known as “Moddr.Net” released a software application allowing users to commit “virtual suicide.” Their free product, the “Web 2.0 Suicide Machine” allows users to […]
Criminal Implications of Implantable Medical Devices Since the dawn of the 1970′s television action show the Six Million Dollar Man, the public has been fascinated by bionics and the integration […]