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CyberWarriors and Disruptive Technologies

NPR Headlines "All Things Considered" has Tech on their minds lately.

Great government doublespeak of the day: This plan is "predecisional".

The government is estimating that the need is about 30k to 40k people. And as a country, there are maybe 1000, total.  I don't know what qualifications they are talking about, or training or job duties.  They just need to hire a bunch of people that don't exist for threats they are not sure about to keep America "safe" in a future that nobody can predict.

Immediately after, NPR turns to Apple falling behind in the world market.  Cellphones are the actual wave of the future.  Of the entire world.  (Not just nerdy Americans in Brooklyn.  And wannabes.)




The Chinese market is growing.  India. Africa.  The numbers will be going after innovation.  The quickest, easiest smartphones that can deliver quick bits and bites (and bytes) of info.  The device has got to be inexpensive, smooth and work impeccably more than 95% of the time.

Mashing these issues together, it seems that the American government needs to hire tech-savvy people to imagine all sorts of possibilities for the future.  Not just for Apple, but for any American government organization.

Even I can predict that it WILL involve Social Media monitoring (including Linguistic Analysis) and guerilla UX techniques all the way up to the most sophisticated UX research, with as many numbers as possible.  These two needs are a great example of blowing up the perspective to include high-level metrics, while also leaving room for plenty of qualitative situations.  The next Disruptive Technology, the next terrorist cyber-attack will come from a single mind, but will be implemented on a large scale and can influence the world.  
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