Cyber Defense eMagazine December 2019

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The Perspectives Of The 5th Industrial Revolution
By Milica D. Djekic
New days bring us so many new things. It would appear that we literally get overwhelmed by emerging
and cutting-edge technologies. So many novel solutions deal with the prefix “smart” or “intelligent,” and
it’s a good question whether we should expect the coming developments in technology and engineering
will result in products and services becoming superior to the human mind. The fact is since the beginning
of the first computing devices the calculators of the past got the capacity to resolve so many complicated
mathematical problems much faster than the people’s brain. Even the most skillful scientists can’t solve
equations, formulas and calculations that quickly and accurately. So, from that perspective – it might
seem that machines are already a step ahead of us. But is that realistic? While human beings might
welcome such progress, security issues must be taken into account. So, does such a potential dominance
by machines present a challenge to us or should we simply try to take advantage over the possible
benefits?
It’s quite unlikely to be able to provide a straightforward answer to such a puzzle, but let’s say if we are
not scared seeing the computers, networks and datacenters coping with the fluid dynamics mathematical
models – we can overcome anything frightening about machine learning or artificial intelligence. The
current time would show that we have become so dependent on new technologies, and nearly everything
in our world relies on the internet of everything. It would look like that such a communications channel
would deal with the most effective information transfer and apparently – we would get so smart by relying
on the web for data transmission. The ongoing situation would suggest that the trends of the 4 th industrial
revolution are mainly directed to the IT solutions, but the positive aspect here is how secure we are with
those innovations. In our opinion, the novel developments such as the Internet of Things or intelligent