CYBER TECHNOLOGY: ESSAY

This discussion will cover the technological progress that has been made as a society over the past
decade, half century, and century, and will further discuss the origin of critical networks and cyber
systems and how they have had a positive and negative influence on today’s society. Lastly, it will
explain emerging technologies that could possibly become critical assets tomorrow or in the generations
to come.

Discussion

The difficulty in anticipating the evolution of technology is not based on the fact of understanding
technology, but at what speed information technology will change. According to Gallaire (1998) “the fact
that what is possible does not always come to pass, and what comes to pass may have seemed possible”
(p. 47). Society ultimately chooses which among all potential evolutions will become real by deciding
where to invest and what to accept, adopt or reject. Early on in the evolution of critical networks and
information technology, not everyone could imagine a need for a significant amount of computers,
there was just absolutely no way to anticipate their use either from a personal perspective or use in the
economy (Gallaire, 1998).

It is most often the lack of success in the creation of technological innovation that is the disruption with
a spoken language that talks to machines. And finally, even experts who have a full understanding of
technical situations can get it wrong. Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Local Area Networks in 1973,
wrongly predicted in 1995 the collapse of the Internet for 1996 what he miscalculated is the speed at
which the underlying infrastructure of the Internet is being replaced to account for new requirements .

Enterprises are embracing technology in the way they do business and also as a catalyst to create
something new, which leads to new markets, new products, and new areas of growth and revenues.
Along with the advantages of technologies we are equally faced with challenges and vulnerabilities.