
Future Crimes
Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable and What We Can Do About It
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Narrated by:
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Robertson Dean
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Marc Goodman
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By:
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Marc Goodman
NEW YORK TIMES and WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2015
One of the world’s leading authorities on global security, Marc Goodman takes listeners deep into the digital underground to expose the alarming ways criminals, corporations, and even countries are using new and emerging technologies against you—and how this makes everyone more vulnerable than ever imagined.
Technological advances have benefited our world in immeasurable ways, but there is an ominous flip side: our technology can be turned against us. Hackers can activate baby monitors to spy on families, thieves are analyzing social media posts to plot home invasions, and stalkers are exploiting the GPS on smart phones to track their victims’ every move. We all know today’s criminals can steal identities, drain online bank accounts, and wipe out computer servers, but that’s just the beginning. To date, no computer has been created that could not be hacked—a sobering fact given our radical dependence on these machines for everything from our nation’s power grid to air traffic control to financial services.
Yet, as ubiquitous as technology seems today, just over the horizon is a tidal wave of scientific progress that will leave our heads spinning. If today’s Internet is the size of a golf ball, tomorrow’s will be the size of the sun. Welcome to the Internet of Things, a living, breathing, global information grid where every physical object will be online. But with greater connections come greater risks. Implantable medical devices such as pacemakers can be hacked to deliver a lethal jolt of electricity and a car’s brakes can be disabled at high speed from miles away. Meanwhile, 3-D printers can produce AK-47s, bioterrorists can download the recipe for Spanish flu, and cartels are using fleets of drones to ferry drugs across borders.
With explosive insights based upon a career in law enforcement and counterterrorism, Marc Goodman takes readers on a vivid journey through the darkest recesses of the Internet. Reading like science fiction, but based in science fact, Future Crimes explores how bad actors are primed to hijack the technologies of tomorrow, including robotics, synthetic biology, nanotechnology, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. These fields hold the power to create a world of unprecedented abundance and prosperity. But the technological bedrock upon which we are building our common future is deeply unstable and, like a house of cards, can come crashing down at any moment.
Future Crimes provides a mind-blowing glimpse into the dark side of technological innovation and the unintended consequences of our connected world. Goodman offers a way out with clear steps we must take to survive the progress unfolding before us. Provocative, thrilling, and ultimately empowering, Future Crimes will serve as an urgent call to action that shows how we can take back control over our own devices and harness technology’s tremendous power for the betterment of humanity—before it’s too late.
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“Addictive….[I]ntroduces readers to this brave new world of technology, where robbers have been replaced by hackers, and victims include nearly anyone on the Web… He presents his myriad hard-to-imagine cybercrime examples in the kind of matter-of-fact voice he probably perfected as an investigator. He clearly wants us never to look at our cellphones or Facebook pages in the same way again — and in this, Future Crimes succeeds marvelously.”— The Washington Post
“Excellent and timely…Mr. Goodman is no neo-Luddite. He thinks innovations could ultimately lead to self-healing computer networks that detect hackers and automatically make repairs to shut them out. He rightly urges the private and public sectors to work more closely together, ‘crowdsourcing’ ideas and know-how…The best time to start tackling future crimes is now.” — The Economist
"This is a must-read!" -- Larry King
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What did you love best about Future Crimes?
So many references to current issues that have occurred.What was the most compelling aspect of this narrative?
accuracy and sequential explanation of where we are and where we are going with internet.Have you listened to any of Robertson Dean and Marc Goodman ’s other performances before? How does this one compare?
have notDid you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?
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I have recommended this to my friends that especially are techy.OMG
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This book is similar to Michio Kaku book, here Marc Goodman provide excellent insight about the technology and how powerful and dangerous its to use it without protection and awareness.
He also get in to the next generation of computing power and how we the society can do to protect us, our assess and our privacy.
Congratulation to Marc this book is an excellent guide to the reality of Future Crimes, correction Today's Crimes. Lets fight Crime Inc!
A book that every person that should read!
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Important to accept and understand.
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Paranoid? Not if they really are out to get you.
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The book is well structered, the author gets his points across and the performance is excellent.
Must Read
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More research was put into this book than just about any other book I have read! Great job Mr. Goodman! I bought the hardcover just the other day so I can have a reference for the information referenced throughout. I can't wait for it to arrive so I can start highlighting LOTS of stuff. Another nice thing is that this book is VERY current as of my listening over the last couple months.
Excellent book and would highly recommend! Not only for the techie/geeks like me, but anyone who wants a glimpse of not only what is going on all around us right now -- virtually unknown to the public -- but the door we are stepping through becoming more dependent on digital information. and the security it requires to have any chance whatsoever against the cyber-criminal empire.
Just be wary, even though the information is interesting and even quite fascinating, the audiobook can get a little tedious during long listens because of the near-monotone narration. But he gets the point across just fine, so not a deal-breaker by any means. I think Scott Brick would have been perfect for this book! But just my 2 cents..
As a 15-year IT veteran I was surprised how little I knew about security, Crime, Inc, and frightening direction that technology is going with virtually no way to stop it! We are in an entirely new digital world, and even us IT pros are just infants in this growing mesh of interconnectedness, dubbed the "Internet of Things", or IoT. The world is about to change, and in a big way!
Wow, an amazing eye-opener!
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What made the experience of listening to Future Crimes the most enjoyable?
So many things covered that I hadn't thought possible, it was both fascinating and terrifying!Amazing book!
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Excellent and important ...
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Must read
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Very Informative
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