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March 04, 2008
Next Hundred Years of Security

My blog yesterday on the necessity of security, along with a recent forward I got from a friend about predictions for the next 100 years done in 1900, really has me thinking about the future of security.

Of course, I am not foolish enough to think that such a prediction is possible, but the trouble is, I'm also old enough to know that, whether I anticipate it or not, 100 years will most certainly pass. It was also very interesting to see the document, published by the Ladies' Home Journal, about the next 100 years, published in the year 1900. Some of the real doozies were:

There will be no C, X, or Q in our everyday alphabet: Also, English will be the most popular language (yes!), and Russian will be the second (don't think so).

Hot and cold air from spigots: they assumed we would use this method to heat and cool our home. Guess they didn't anticipate television, and the fact that we would be getting our hot air beamed into our homes everyday by the politicians.

No mosquitoes nor flies: Guess someone forgot to tell that to the mosquitoes or flies. But maybe Web 11.0 will include the animal and insect kingdom.

Automobiles will be cheaper than horses: right on that account, but in the next 100 years, who knows (although I'm not rushing out to buy stock in Purina Horse Chow).

Everybody will Walk Ten Miles: They're right, and although I think they meant we would walk that in a day, they're right if you count how much we walk IN A YEAR.

Quite fascinating documents, which you can access right here.

So what do I think the next 100 years of IT security will hold?

Well, all I'll venture a guess is that it will definitely still be around. And I feel pretty confident about making that guess, becuase the oldest known lock is estimated to be 4,000 years old, and we certainly haven't done away with locks and keys. So security will be around, and it will be both built in and external.