Conclusion

In the last 30 years, human beings have become a cyber race, entirely reliant on the internet for their livelihoods. I can imagine a day without electricity, food, or even water. But a day without the internet feels unimaginable. We live in a day and age where children see switching off the Wi-Fi as punishment. A fused light bulb that has stopped working is seen as a light bulb that doesn't have internet access anymore.

We talk to smart speakers to remind us and to play our favorite songs, thereby leaving a piece of us online. We have our fitness data stored on cloud infrastructure, hoping that it would reduce our insurance premiums, or help us win a step count competition. Thanks to payments and remittance technologies, we are able to send money to our friends and family across the world at will.

With so much of our data sitting online, what we often forget is how secure it is. The idea of losing our data to a hacker as an individual can be scary. However, imagine...