This summer I celebrated the fact that I defended my PhD thesis. My friends gave me a present: a single ticket to Bhutan. I am excited. It is unknown territory for me. To go somewhere where I have never been but also not knowing when (or whether…) to return. I will fly this December.
During the second half of the previous century, we all got a single ticket. A single ticket into digitization, the Internet and the World Wide Web. The further integration of our analogue lives with the digital world will inevitably continue. It has brought us unprecedented prosperity and empowerment. But also unprecedented downsides, such as a vast increase in digital insecurity, posed by ransomware, DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks and data breaches amongst others.