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Seattle, WA (PRWEB) December 04, 2014

At Scientific American this week, futurist Richard Yonck explores recent developments in online crime, including potential murders over the internet in the not-too-distant future. Yonck cites a recent Europol report on cybercrime, forecasting that the worlds first online murder could occur by the end of 2014.

The online murder forecast was part of a 2014 Internet Organized Crime Threat Assessment report by Europols European Cybercrime Centre. A foresight analyst with Intelligent Future Consulting, Yonck discusses the methods that could be used to commit such a crime and who might be its potential victims. He also offers some possible solutions for the challenges new technologies create.

Online murder is just one of many threats individuals and organizations face in the rapidly shifting world of cybercrime. According to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a bi-partisan think tank based in Washington, D.C., cybercrime now carries a $445 billion annual global price tag.

The underground economy has been developing a Crime-as-a-Service (CaaS) business model, similar to the legitimate software as a service delivery model, Yonck explains. This allows black hat hackers and other skilled criminal specialists to provide a wide range of products and services. These cover many different forms of criminal activity and are allowing those with few technical resources to readily enter into the world of cybercrime. Unfortunately for most of us, this wasnt a bar that needed to be lowered.

In light of these developments, Yonck states that without changes to our security and legal systems, cybercrime will inevitably proliferate. Not only will this likely give rise to still more cybercriminal activity, it could also lead to a race to the bottom, with CaaS developers providing ever cheaper and easier to use tools and services."

The threat of cybercrime continues to grow, as evidenced by recent breaches at JPMorgan Chase and Target. Given the continuing increase of this activity and the rapidly growing cost to the economy, its obvious much more needs to be done to fight cybercrime and safeguard the interests of businesses and consumers everywhere.

About Intelligent Future Consulting Intelligent Future Consulting provides strategic foresight services to help organizations plan and prepare for inevitable change. Its principal, Richard Yonck is a consulting futurist, a member of the Association of Professional Futurists and an award-winning writer focusing on emerging technologies.

Media Contact: Richard Yonck (206) 618-4884 ryonck(At)intelligent-future(Dot)com

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St.Paul, MN (PRWEB) December 02, 2014

While having dinner the other night, one of my friends mentioned how robotic milking of cows virtually transformed her fathers and her brothers lives as dairy farmers in Southeastern Minnesota. Gone are the days of getting up at the crack of dawn, often in below freezing weather to milk the cows. The cows virtually milk themselves, which frees my brother and Dad up to do things they never thought theyd have time for.

Stories like these among farmers are not uncommon these days. Agriculture is changing at an astounding pace, and global futurist Jack Uldrich has his finger on the pulse of these rapid shifts. Having previously addressed notable agricultural clients such as Novozymes, Land O' Lakes, Ag Spectrum, Mosaic, Case IH, The Christian Farmers Federation, The Iowa Institute for Cooperatives, The Agricultural Adaptation Council of Ontario, AgGateway, the California Ag Summit, Trimble Agriculture, InfoAg, the Mushroom Farmers of Canada, and the Egg Farmers of Canada, hell be addressing the Minnesota Dairy and the Minnesota Milk Producers Associations with his presentation, "Foresight 20/20: The Top Ten Trends Transforming Agriculture" today, December 2nd, in St. Cloud, MN at the 2014 MMPA Conference. Additionally, Uldrich will follow up his presentation with a customized breakout session entitled, "The Big AHA."

In Uldrichs book, Foresight 20/20, written with fellow futurist Simon Anderson, he says, On a 7,000-acre farm in California, a large combine drives itself with sub-meter accuracy and lays down fertilizer only in areas predetermined by the devices yield mapping software that need additional nutrients. Half a world away, on a rooftop in Berlin, Germany, sits an aquaponic farm that produces both vegetables and fish. It uses the fish waste to fertilize the plants, and the plants to purify the water. Both trends, in their separate ways, foreshadow how the agriculture industry will feed the 500 million new people expected to be added to the worlds population by the end of the decade. (For more of Uldrich's insights into future trends, read his latest article, 10 Game Changing Technologies Poised to Transform the World in 2015.)

In his keynote for the MMPA Conference Uldrich will discuss how exponential advances in a variety of emerging technologies, including practical advances in biotechnology, nanotechnology, information management, augmented reality, robotics, RFID, "Big Data," the Internet of Things, wearable technologies, renewable energy sources and satellite and sensor technology will affect dairy farming in the coming years. Uldrich will also cover how social networking, biofuels and water management will transform farming in the years ahead.

The pace and scale of tomorrows change begs the obvious question: How do business leaders in agriculture prepare for a constantly changing future? Uldrich says, "The answer can be found in a simple acronym: AHA, which stands for Awareness, Humility and Action." His break out session following his keynote will focus on guiding his clients through a series of questions and scenarios that will help them embrace the notion of AHA.

Uldrich says, Robotic milking is just one advance among many that will free farmers up to explore other options in their lives in the years to come. Its an exciting time to be a futurist and help farmers see just what those options might be.

Parties interested in learning more about Jack Uldrich, his books, his daily blog or his speaking availability are encouraged to visit his website. Media wishing to know more about these events or interviewing Jack as a futurist or trend expert can contact Amy Tomczyk at (651) 343.0660.

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