Kevin Warwick, the media friendly cybernetics professor at the University of Reading, claims that in a decade, people will have wireless networks in their heads that will enable direct mind-to-mind and mind-to-machine communications.
Scientists at Northwestern University say they have harnessed the properties of light to encrypt information into code that can be cracked only one way: by breaking the physical laws of nature.
Al-Qaida is not the only terrorist network hoping to wreak havoc on the United States through "cyberwarfare," the CIA says.
Researchers working in a wide range of disciplines have created a series of tiny modules, complete with sensors and communications, with the aim of demonstrating 'smart dust'--self-sustaining network nodes measuring millimeters or less per side.
How should the government react to cyber-attacks on critical infrastructures and what effect will this have on our civil liberties?