Network Security in the Medium Term: 2061--2561 AD
August 16, 2011 - 3:24 pm by admin
Keynote Address given by Charles Stross, Author of award-winning science fiction, at the 20th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security '11), held August 8--12, 2011, in San Francisco, CA.
A science fiction writer takes a look at the medium-term implications the information processing revolution holds for human civilization.
Charles Stross, 46, is a full-time science fiction writer and resident of Edinburgh, Scotland. The winner of two Locus Reader Awards and winner in 2005 and 2010 of the Hugo Award for best novella, Stross's works have been translated into over a dozen languages. Like many writers, Stross has had a variety of careers, occupations, and job-shaped catastrophes in the past, from pharmacist through tech sector journalist to first code monkey on the team of a successful dot-com startup. He has degrees in pharmacy and computer science.