What made me think about this was this short piece below. I am part of TV advertising's problem. We love our TiVO and now many of the programs we record have a feature where we can just hit one button, skip the ads, and pick right back up on the program we want to watch. Thus, all those TV ads mean little to nothing to us. There are some programs, especially sports, that people want to watch in real time. Tonight there is the Final Four for NCAA Basketball and this coming week will be the Masters golf championship. But those are few and far between that capture the Holdeman household.
What does this have to do with emergency management? Well, everything! Technology will enable us to do much more than we are doing today. Our current notification systems will look like the Dead Sea Scrolls in a few years as wearables begin to dominate our lives. Self-driving cars, and perhaps a decline in tax revenues from all those car dealerships that feed local governments' tax coffers, etc.
The Internet of Things (IoT) will drive much of the future in devices, services and yes — cybervulnerabilities. It is a brave new world that will create winners and losers.
