This Friday, we're talking to Marc Goodman, the author of "Future Crimes," about new crimes that will come from emerging technology. We asked over twitter for some future crime reports from the year 2025....MOREAnd for our younger readers, this is part of what used to be called a "printing press" pronounced /prɪntɪŋ pres/ where "headlines" became corporeal:
@scifri 6 month old still not reading, remains homely. Genetic engineering firm sued. #CrimeHeadlinesFrom2025
— DorothyAnn Lowry (@DLoZombieRN) February 25, 2015
@scifri Tax Jurisdiction case to determine if banks on asteroids are subject to US GAAP and IRS tax codes #CrimeHeadlinesFrom2025
— Brenda (@bharoian) February 26, 2015
Police investigate designer-DNA bootleggers #CrimeHeadlinesFrom2025
— Medulla Oblongata (@Medulla_O) February 26, 2015
CA senator impeached after trading part of state water allocation for tickets to Spice Girls 30th Anniversary Tour. #CrimeHeadlinesFrom2025
— Jessica Liptak (@J_Liptak) February 25, 2015
"Identity" theft reaches new low when hackers steal users personality
#CrimeHeadlinesFrom2025
— Mr. Stavis (@TeachInChucks) February 25, 2015
#CrimeHeadlinesFrom2025 Thief uses iTransporterBeam to move money from vault to his house. iMap directs money to police station instead
— Greg Ricker (@Greg_Ricker) February 25, 2015
SEC Cracks Down On Tachyonic Retrotemporal Futures Trading #CrimeHeadlinesFrom2025
— Neowolf (@Neowolf2) February 25, 2015
And many more.
HT: Singularity Hub, December 16, 2015