The 21st century cyberspace

Abstract

The author discusses the development of new Information Communications Technologies (ICT) in the areas of e-Learning, e-Health, e-Government, e-Journalism, etc. The current Web 2.0 combined with the 3D Telepresence, Future Internet, Semantic Web Technologies provide support to creation of social networks, content retrieval and analysis, which creates foundation for the future fully automated cyberspace. Current dynamic Internet developments and continuous demand for the ubiquitous connectivity combined with the next generation of networks contributes towards creation the future cyberspace infrastructures worldwide. Implementation of the cyberspace in the government and corporate infrastructures, contributes towards creation of new paradigm in the decision making processes. Decisions that are currently governed by the human intelligence knowledge and intuition may be influenced by the cyber-data and processes. Future cyberspace will ultimately impact the decision making processes by government, corporate, industrial and academic institutions worldwide. In conclusion the author promotes discussion on the social and ethical impact of the future cyberspace and ICT technologies in the context of governance vs. privacy.