Life in Cyberspace (Volume 5)

Mary Aiken

• Publisher: European Investment Bank
• Year: 2019
• Topic: Business
• eBook ISBN:
  9789286142956
• Subtopic: Finance
• Index: Business

Internet is a real place. Every time we switch on our computers, use a program or an application, or log in to a social media site, we enter a virtual space made up of worlds, domains, forums and rooms. But we behave differently when we interact with technology: technology amplifies and accelerates our deeds; it can help us find useful information, benefit from a wide range of services and stay in touch with our friends, but it can also create addictive-type behaviours and subliminally manipulate us online. Mary Aiken, a cyberpsychologist specialised in the impact of technology on human behaviour, warns us about cybersecurity: "We need a human-centred approach that is mindful of how humans actually use connected things and not how the tech sector presumes or expects them to". This is the fifth essay in the Big Ideas series created by the European Investment Bank. The EIB has invited international thought leaders to write about the most important issues of the day. These essays are a reminder that we need new thinking to protect the environment, promote equality and improve people's lives around the globe.

Notes

[1]		Slane, Andrea, “Democracy, Social Space and the Internet”, University of Toronto Law Journal, 57:81-104, 2007
[2]		Aiken, Mary P., The Cyber Effect, New York, Random House, Spiegel&Grau, 2016
[3]		ARM technology is at the heart of a computing and connectivity revolution that is transforming the way people live and businesses operate. ARM advanced, energyefficient processor designs have enabled the intelligent computing in more than 125 billion chips. Over 70% of the world’s population are using ARM technology, which is securely powering products from the sensor to the smartphone and the supercomputer.
[4]		IoT Security Manifesto, https://pages.arm.com/iot-security-manifesto.html
[5]		https://www.mcafee.com/enterprise/en-us/assets/reports/restricted/economic-impact-cybercrime.pdf
[6]		Aiken, Mary P., Manipulating Fast, and Slow, 2018 https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/manipulating-fast-and-slow
[7]		Cyberpsychology is the study of the impact of technology on human behaviour. The field is rapidly evolving from an emerging to an established field within applied psychology. It is expected to enjoy exponential growth in the coming decades due to continued rapid growth of Internet technologies and the unprecedented, ubiquitous influence of the Internet on humans.
[8]		Proshansky, Harold M., “The Field of Environmental Psychology: securing Its Future“, Handbook of Environmental Psychology, eds. Daniel Stokols and Irwin Altman, New York, John Wiley & Sons, 1987
[9]		https://www.wsj.com/articles/nato-to-recognize-cyberspace-as-new-frontier-in-defense-1465908566
[10]		[...] the global domain within the information environment consisting of the interdependent networks of information technology infrastructure and resident data including the Internet, telecommunications networks, computer systems and embedded processors and controllers. http://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/Doctrine/pubs/jp3_12.pdf?ver=2018-07-16-134954-150 (JP 3-12: V)
[11]		http://www.jcs.mil/Portals/36/Documents/Doctrine/pubs/jp3_12.pdf?ver=2018-07-16-134954-150 (JP 3-12: I-3)
[12]		The Cyber Effect selected as one of the best science picks of the week in 2016 by Nature, and chosen as a UK 2016 Times Book of the Year in the Thought Category
[13]		http://www.maryaiken.com/cyber-effect/
[14]		These sprays, dusts and aerosols are now applied almost universally to farms, gardens, forests and homes – non-selective chemicals that have the power to kill every insect, the ‘good’ and the ‘bad’, to still the song of the birds and the leaping of fish in the streams, to coat the leaves with a deadly film and to linger on in the soil – all this though the intended target may be only a few weeds or insects. Carson, Rachel, Silent Spring, Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1962
[15]		https://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/may/27/rachel-carson-silent-spring-anniversary
[16]		“The fig tree is pollinated only by the insect Blastophaga grossorun. The larva of the insect lives in the ovary of the fig tree, and there it gets its food. The tree and the insect are thus heavily interdependent: the tree cannot reproduce without the insect; the insect cannot eat without the tree; together, they constitute not only a viable but a productive and thriving partnership. This cooperative ‘living together in intimate association, or even close union, of two dissimilar organisms’ is called symbiosis.”
[17]		The Story of Silent Spring
[18]		Opening Statement by Professor Barry O’Sullivan MRIA and Adj. Assoc. Professor Mary Aiken to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
[19]		https://business.financialpost.com/executive/executive-women/women-on-corporate-boards-better-decision-makers-than-male-directors-study
[20]		[…] acts of murder were once reported after the fact, on the news, or were only available in the deepest and darkest parts of the...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Big ideas
• Life in Cyberspace
• Cyberspace is a real place
• New scientific frontiers
• The three layers of cyberspace
• The cyber effect
• All internet users are not equal
• A holistic overview
• The precautionary principle
• Biography
• Notes