{"id":1418,"date":"2018-09-26T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T12:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.65.207.89\/2018\/09\/26\/cybersecurity-canon-candidate-book-review-abundance-the-future-is-better-than-you-think\/"},"modified":"2018-09-26T12:00:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T12:00:57","slug":"cybersecurity-canon-candidate-book-review-abundance-the-future-is-better-than-you-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ideus.com.tr\/index.php\/cybersecurity-canon-candidate-book-review-abundance-the-future-is-better-than-you-think\/","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity Canon Candidate Book Review: \u201cAbundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We modeled the\u00a0Cybersecurity Canon<\/a>\u00a0after the Baseball or Rock & Roll Hall-of-Fame, except for cybersecurity books. We have more than 25 books on the initial candidate list, but we are soliciting help from the cybersecurity community to increase the number to be much more than that.\u00a0Please write a review and nominate your favorite.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The Cybersecurity Canon is a real thing for our community. We have designed it so that you can\u00a0directly participate in the process<\/a>. Please do so!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Executive Summary<\/span><\/p>\n

Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think<\/em> is about this radical idea that exponential technologies will flip our common notion about scarcity. We live in a world where entrepreneurs make money by selling scarcity. Some resource or other is hard to get, so the entrepreneur finds a way to get it and sell it to the masses. Exponential technologies are \u201csystems or tools where the power and\/or speed, doubles each year, and\/or the cost drops by half.\u201d [1]<\/p>\n

It turns out that exponential technologies are key to finding solutions to the world\u2019s grand challenges: food, water, shelter, energy, communication, education, healthcare, and freedom. The authors have tracked the exponential technologies that drive these grand challenges through six phases that they call The Six Ds of Exponential Organizations: digitization, deception, disruption, demonetization, dematerialization, and democratization. They say that solutions for most of these grand challenges are tantalizingly just 15 to 20 years away. In less than a generation, instead of managing a set of scarce resources, the world will be flush with resources that are abundant.<\/p>\n

That said, I am not recommending Abundance<\/em> as a must-read for the cybersecurity professional today. The ideas that the authors discuss will not improve your current defensive posture. However, if the authors are correct, exponential technologies will significantly impact how we all deploy security technology in the very near future. If you are intrigued by the abundance concept, this is the book for you.<\/p>\n

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Review<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzwell founded Singularity University back in 2008. Their mission is to \u201ceducate, inspire, and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address humanity\u2019s grand challenges.\u201d [2]<\/p>\n

Exponential Technologies Definition: Systems or tools where \u201cthe power and\/or speed doubles each year, and\/or the cost drops by half.\u201d [1]\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the university\u2019s founding,\u00a0Diamandis and Kurzwell appointed\u00a0Salim Ismail to be the school\u2019s executive director and global ambassador. [3] Their joint vision, their Massive Transformative Purpose (MTP), is to \u201cBuild an Abundant Future Together.\u201d [1]<\/p>\n

Diamandis published Abundance<\/em> in 2012 in order to explain the abundance concept to the world. [4] Later, in 2014, Ismail published \u201cExponential Organizations\u201d to explain how modern businesses could take advantage of these exponential technologies, and build leaner and more efficient companies in an abundant world. [5]<\/p>\n

So, just what do these visionaries mean when they talk about abundance?<\/p>\n

Abundance is this radical idea that exponential technologies, those that meet the definition above, will flip our common notion about\u00a0scarcity. For example, we all think about oil as a scarce resource because it is hard to get oil out of the ground. Oil companies make money by selling that scarcity because consumers don\u2019t have the means to do it themselves. But, in an abundant future, the cost of solar power and the exponential technologies that drive it might become so cheap that energy becomes essentially free for every person on the planet. Pause for a second and let that idea roll over you. Free energy for everybody on the planet. The mind boggles.<\/p>\n

In that future, oil companies would find themselves in an abundant world where their demonstrated expertise to get oil out of the ground is no longer needed. If this happens, this would be a classic case of Diamandis\u2019s The<\/strong>\u00a0Six Ds<\/strong>: a predictable and observable transformational process that is occurring in many business sectors where exponential technologies are present:<\/p>\n