A far-reaching effect of Covid19 will be the acceleration of adoption of the Internet-Of-Things. This will lead to an explosion of Big Data and in time of Big Data will become a public utility with players like Amazon and Google become global providers of anonymised Big Data filtered through a layer of AI. While legally Big Data as a public utility will have to be anonymised and black market wiill develop in the hacking to strip away the anonymity. Since story-telling is the best way to make a point here is vignette of how a Sherlock Home sof the 40s of the 21st century interact with such an utility
It was the “firecrackers” that jolted him from his reverie. It was the night of the 200th anniversary of VE Day.
2044 and they still wanted “firecrackers” to celebrate he mused. Virtual ones of course. Just light and sound what with the strict carbon emission controls despite yearly protests by the MakeEarthGreatAgain party which averred that steeply falling atmospheric CO2 levels are making men impotent!
Well it takes all kind, thought Holmes and with an inward shrug got back to his business of cogitation. Ten minutes into his train of thought turned a corner and startling new vista opened up.
“Hey Alexa dig this. Lets see if we can buy the chemical analysis of washing machine residues from GooglePlex for the night of April 12th this year for Central London”
“Hi Sherlock. New train of thought heh? Give a sec as I get a quote. Here it is. Data field size 1,10,006 machines. Number of chemical residues identified 7403. Cost of anonymised data – 10,000 Universal Credits. Broken by six geographic clusters – 14,000 UCs”
“Damn thieves! Guess the client can afford it. Buy the geographic clusters and look for a residue from a machine that contained both Botullinum and Ricin”
“Bingo Mr. Homes – cluster six – Ridgewood Heights – machine no. 63654”
“Hmm Ridgewood Heights. Our list of four suspects. None of them have a home in Ridgewood Heights. A hideaway? A mistress. Damn the Sexton Act or I would have got a warrant for GooglePlex to reveal the machine location. Alexa please switch to Dr Alexa mode”
“Dr Alexa here Mr. Holmes”
“Hello Dr.. Switch to dark mode and see if you can buy the address of machine no. 63654 from one of our crawler friends”
“On it. Hmm IndiaRani say can do but the price is 19000 bitcoins”
Sherlock whistles. This blows the budget. The client will blow a fuse, he thought. But then this could crack the case.
“Buy it Dr.. But tell Rani that she is getting greedier by the day”
This will take time thought Sherlock. A day maybe. Rani is careful and that takes time and subterfuge. Damn these Indians, They now own the data black market and make hay. The inherent subtlety of the Indian mind finally winning commercial rewards. He sighed and looked around for his pipe. Must replenish the mescaline he thought as he reclined back and got aboard another train of thought.
PS: And as Artificial Intelligence progresses to General Intelligence by the 2050s, can one imagine a Mr. Holmes who is an advanced AI entity with a built-in Dr. Alexa
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