We live in a VUCA world – volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous – where the only constant is change, complexity is growing, and all the ambiguity this creates is making us feel anxious and uncertain. The world is being disrupted over and over again, and the risks previously categorized as “unknown unknowns” have become commonplace. Everywhere we turn, Mount VUCA is in various stages of volcanic eruption. Join IQ4U’s Dr. Tamara Schwartz and her invited guests in this new podcast explori ...
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Escaping Reality…Evolution of VR/AR/XR in Video Gaming
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At some point in time we have all dreamed of being someone else or somewhere else. When you read a fantasy book that felt so real, you wished you could go to that place. Or maybe you were watching a professional sporting event and imagined that it was you who was making that slam dunk, homerun, impossible goal, or touchdown. That time at your first…
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Privacy Disrupted! What exactly did you agree to in that user agreement?
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We live in an age of surveillance, but few of us pay attention to exactly how closely we are being tracked. Devices like the Ring doorbell, the Apple Watch, Google’s search engine, and the smartphone in your pocket provide location, imagery, voice, interest, and health data. Social media provides the same. Few people, if anyone, read the user agree…
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Sex Disrupted! Applications of AI and Robotics in Sex Tech
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The sex tech industry is a recognized early adopter of emerging technology and driver of innovation. In fact, ecommerce and bandwidth technology are two examples of innovations that came from the sex tech industry. On this episode of WMD, Dr. Tamara Schwartz hands off the hosting microphone to Neisha Pierre, a cybersecurity management major and her…
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Definitions Disrupted…AI the Newest Business Buzzword
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Let’s play Buzzword Bingo. Business Analytics. Cybersecurity. AI. Big Data. ChatGPT. Blockchain. IoT. Let’s talk tech. On this episode of WMD, Dr. Schwartz talks with two of her YCP students, Madison Furrow a cybersecurity management major and Thomas Cooper a business analytics major about artificial intelligence and its intersection with everythin…
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Job Search Disrupted…Removing the Human from Human Resources
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When we think about human resources and personnel, we think about people…about humans! But AI is taking the personal out of personnel. Since the introduction of Human Resources Information Systems into the hiring process, the job search experience has become very different. Generative AI is already making an impact on resumes, and there are new app…
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“Real” Disrupted…Is Something Real in Virtual Reality?
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What is real? This is the question posed to the Velveteen Rabbit by the Skin Horse. He goes on to explain that “Real isn’t how you are made. You become.” The rise of Augmented and Virtual Reality technologies makes this question even more complicated. Is something “real” when we experience it in cyberspace? On this episode of WMD, Dr. Schwartz talk…
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Coaching in sport is extremely important to development both as an athlete and as a whole person. The tools a coach has at their disposal is a factor in how they can help their athletes prepare, train, reflect, and recover. Emerging technologies are creating new ways to assist in the player – coach relationship. In particular, IoT offers numerous o…
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A Soldier’s Life Disrupted…Tech Tales from the Front Lines Part 2
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On the last episode of WMD, one of Dr. Schwartz’s student veterans, Mr. Jon Ritt, a business analytics major at the York College of Pennsylvania, shared war stories from his first deployment to Southwest Asia to describe how technology is shaping the battlefield. On this episode, part two of a two-part story, Jon shares the story of his second depl…
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A Soldier’s Life Disrupted…Tech Tales from the Front Lines Part 1
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One of the best experiences that comes from being a professor is when a student takes the opportunity to share their personal story. Military veterans share a very special bond, as a veteran herself, Dr. Schwartz feels especially grateful for that connection when a student veteran shares their story. This is part one of a very special two-part epis…
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Battlefield Disrupted…RealPolitik and the AI Arms Race
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Historically, National Security has always involved the most cutting edge of technology. As the world moves back into a RealPolitik posture with nations competing for power of a global scale, how we go to war is changing again. The newest arms race is in the application of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics on the battlefield. On this episode of …
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Tethered to the Net! How IoT is Disrupting Everything!
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George Orwell imagined it in 1984. Star Trek imagined it with the Borg, when they promised that we would all be assimilated. The Internet of Things, or IoT in industry jargon, is no longer the stuff of science fiction, but rather the stuff of science fact, and it is disrupting everything. On this episode of WMD, Dr. Tamara Schwartz hands off the mi…
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Social Engineering Disrupted! How Deepfakes are Changing the Threat
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Social engineering is a behavior as old as humankind, though the terminology is traced back to Dutch industrialist J.C. VanMarken in 1894. Van Marken believed that the world needed people who could handle social (human) problems, in much the same way that engineers handled mechanical problems. Today social engineering is understood to be behaviors …
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Textbooks Disrupted! Developing a Textbook on Information & Disinformation Literacy
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Most textbooks are pretty dry. They lay out a lot of facts, but they are rarely engaging. When beginning the project to develop a textbook for the CYB 100 Infowars class, one student suggested that the book should try to re-create the classroom experience students have at York College. In order to do that, students were included at all phases of th…
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Piracy Disrupted! GPS Spoofing on the High Seas
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There has been a significant increase in maritime traffic in the last few decades as supply chains become more and more robust. With more targets of opportunity, there has been a parallel rise in piracy around the world. GPS has been an important technology to impact maritime navigation, but emerging technologies are not just facilitating better ma…
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Boundaries Disrupted! Redrawing the Map
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Boundaries come in many forms. They can be physical, verbal, psychological, emotional, virtual, and machine generated. Boundaries can be the subject of nation state conflict. They can be something you discuss while lying on your therapists couch. Boundaries come into play when we talk about establishing “work-life balance.” Since the launch of the …
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Students Disrupted! Cybersecurity Majors Begin “Adulting”
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One of the best parts of being a college professor is seeing students grow from recent high school graduates into young professionals. Students in the cybersecurity management program at the York College of Pennsylvania are required to complete a research project into a cybersecurity related topic of their choice. The students choose really interes…
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Identity Disrupted! The Potential Impacts of Deepfakes
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Who owns your face? What about your voice? Or your natural body movements Have you ever thought about what makes you uniquely you? The recent actors’ and writers’ strikes brought the potential impacts of AI to public attention, and the actors’ guild was particularly concerned about deepfakes because an actors, voice, appearance, and body movements …
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Cyberattack! Analyzing Disruption in Cyberspace with Analytics
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Have you ever thought about what cyberspace looks like? We imagine video games, social media, the output of a search engine, or maybe something more Hollywood like the Matrix. But what do invisible spectrum signals look like? How do you have situational awareness of a place that is invisible? On this episode of WMD, Dr. Tamara Schwartz hands off th…
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Each week millions of people tune in to watch as two teams of eleven players each face one another across the gridiron in a test of physical strength, speed, and agility. Just for the love of the game. Other than live-streaming the games, what roles could cybersecurity possibly play in such a physical contest? You might be surprised! I'll be talkin…
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Actors Disrupted…Mechanical Entertainers
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Movies like iRobot, WALL-E, and the Terminator portray humanoid robots as characters in movies about robots. Other movies, like Iron Man, implement robotics technology as part of the context of the story, such as Iron Man’s suit and swarming Iron Man drones. But changes in robotic technology are beginning to catch up to the Hollywood imagination, a…
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Automation in the manufacturing industry has been going on for years, beginning with the very first assembly line designed by Henry Ford. With wide adoption of robotics and the Internet of Things, the next big impact is coming from the implantation of AI and machine learning, which will interact with the existing automation technologies to enable t…
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Disrupting the battlefield...Robots and 5G
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The military uses robotics in a variety of ways, drones both in the air and under water, and robots that can be used to find IEDs or dismantle bombs. But more robots and more communications systems operating on the tactical edge, create requirements for better access to the spectrum and greater bandwidth. On this episode of WMD I again hand off the…
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Power to the people, or is it power to the AI? In January, ChatGPT became a household word. Artificial Intelligence is impacting every industry, and now, from the music industry, to the sports industry, to the movie industry, it’s altering the course of entertainment. Deepfakes are bringing dead movie actors back to life, or allowing aging actors t…
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Take a look around you, how many devices in your environment need batteries to operate? As we explore emerging technologies in the clean energy space, we need to consider energy storage, and that means batteries. On this episode of WMD, Dr. Tamara Schwartz speaks with business analytics major Myles Herzog from the York College of Pennsylvania to ex…
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Our Bodies Disrupted…3D printing and the future of healthcare
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Imagine a day in the future when you have an organ transplant from your own cells. Or receive a joint replacement constructed of real bone. As crazy as this sounds, healthcare is experimenting with 3D printing to make these kinds of crazy ideas a real possibility. On today’s episode of WMD, I will be talking with cybersecurity soon to be graduate, …
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Disrupting the Hospital…Virtual Reality and Healthcare
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During the pandemic, healthcare was disrupted no only by the covid-19 disease, but traditional patient care was upended. With new technologies continuing to emerge, it is becoming easier to visit the doctor without ever leaving you home, but the new version of House calls” does not involve the doctor coming to your home. Instead, technologies like …
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The closing line of the 1895 poem, Judge Softly, by Mary T. Lathrup says, “Take the time to walk a mile in his moccasins.” This line evolved into the expression, “you can’t really understand another person’s experience until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.” Empathy is essentially the ability to see things from another person’s perspective and …
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Intellectual Property disrupted…Generative AI
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Artificial Intelligence, specifically generative AI has been scraping the Internet to “create” new artifacts in the form of text, software, art, and other expressions previously thought to be the realm of humans. Much of the data being ingested and regurgitated by generative AI are considered to be intellectual property. If a human were to use this…
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Disrupting Cybersecurity Training…CyberconIQ
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Have you ever been bungee jumping? Are you a by the book rules follower? Have you ever used the expression “It’s always better to ask forgiveness than permission”? Your answers to these questions speak to your perceptions of risk, and they have significant bearing on the types of social engineering approaches to which you are vulnerable. On this ep…
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Disrupted Radio…Generative AI and Radio GPT
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We continue our exploration of generative AI as we learn about Radio GPT, the new digitally curated radio program with AI “personalities” filling the role of DJ. On this episode of WMC, Dr. Tamara Schwartz is joined once again by WVYC’s Professor Jeff Schiffman to discuss what happens when content curating algorithms collide with Chat GPT.…
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More Disruption in the Art World…Generative AI Art
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What is art? Emerging technologies have always created new means for self-expression, a generative artificial intelligence such as DALL-E and and Stable Diffusion are two of the newest tools. When an AI generated picture won a prize in the Colorado State Fair last summer, there was a public outcry – did the image really qualify as art or was it sim…
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I Always Feel Like, Somebody’s Watching Me…and I Have No Privacy
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With behavioral surplus (the collection of personal behavioral data) becoming a traded commodity, and Behavioral Analytics improving, the pursuit of our personal data through what Dr. Shoshonna Zuboff calls “extraction architectures,” it’s difficult to imagine a company choosing privacy for competitive advantage, over the profitable exploitation of…
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Cybersecurity and the Antifragile Nature of Blockchain
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Cryptocurrencies have become a widely talked about topic in recent weeks with the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange. These currencies are created and facilitated on a technology called Blockchain, a framework that allows hundreds of computers to work simultaneously to create and facilitate transactions of crypto currencies. This technology is con…
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You’re a Supercheat, Supercheat, You’re Supercheated OUT!
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Sophocles once said, “I would prefer even to fail with honor than to win by cheating.” No so in the world of video games, but “winners never cheat, and cheaters never win,” as the saying goes. And in the world of video game cheats, the consequences could be a significant loss in the pursuit of unearned victory. On this episode of WMD, Dr. Tamara Sc…
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If you have ever spent time with a person who claims to be a jack of all trades and a master of none, you have spent time with a polymath. Today, you get to listen to the meandering chaos of a VUCA conversation between two such individuals. On this episode of WMD, Dr. Tamara Schwartz talks with the author of polymathic being, Michael Woudenberg, wh…
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Spacing Out...Satellite Cybersecurity
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Have you ever thought about how much of your daily experience is satellite driven? Maybe you used a map or GPS application to find your way somewhere today. Possibly you live streamed your favorite show or movie, or have plans to do that when you get home later.Maybe you listed to satellite radio during the commute. When the USSR launched Sputnik 1…
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How “Constant Vigilance!” Can Lead to OpSec Fatigue
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Cybersecurity is often associated with Chicken Little or the Boy who cried, “Wolf!” Cyberthreat has become so persistent and cyberattack so frequent, that those of us who work in the industry exhaust both themselves and others out with our constant reminders to be cautious and careful. On this episode of WMD, Dr. Tamara Schwartz talks with York Col…
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The Surveillance State of Real Estate
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Following the typical Moore’s Law trajectory, smart home devices are becoming easier to use and more affordable. The cost efficiencies offered by smart thermostats, smart water heaters, and IoT light switches and electrical outlets, present attractive opportunities for homeowners and landlords. Smart meters support optimization of the electrical gr…
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Sports - Competition and the arena of DISRUPTION!
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Sports are the ultimate unifier! The spirit of competition transcends borders, rises above social class, and unifies people across communities. Sports can be a simple pickup game of basketball, but it is also BIG BUSINESS. And as with all industries, technology is shaping the world of sports. From arenas and stadiums to athlete training and audienc…
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Disrupting the Art World…NFTs and Digital Art
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What is art? Emerging technologies have always created new means for self-expression. When photography was invented, there was tremendous dissent in the art world which led to how art was perceived. With the rise of digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and blockchain technology, how we define art is continuing to evolve. Saatchi Art is an…
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Welcome back to season 2 of Weapons of Mass Disruption. The podcast where we explore the impact of technology, social change, and disruption. Mt VUCA continues to erupt, impacting industries of all kinds. Join Dr. Tamara Schwartz, and get ready to lace up your boots as we hop out of our canoe and head off into unknown territory.…
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Your tether disrupted…advances in battery technology
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Look around you. How many things can you count in your sight line that include a battery? Batteries have been around forever, and yet there is significant innovation in the battery industry. As the Internet of Things expands, battery technology becomes more critical to support the emerging capabilities of so many new technologies. On this episode o…
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Social disruption and the subtle changes of AI
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The big disruptions wrought by technology are easy to identify, but more often than not, the disruptions are subtle and occur over time. In this episode of WMD, Dr. Tamara Schwartz describes the approach she takes in the classroom to get students thinking about some of the bigger ethical questions presented by technological innovation. She then han…
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Disrupting what it means to be human...AI
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What is it that makes us uniquely human? Is it the ability to think? Is it the ability to create? What does it even mean to think? On this episode of Weapons of Mass Disruption, three cybersecurity students from the York College of Pennsylvania wrestle with these questions as they discuss artificial intelligence. Once again, Dr. Tamara Schwartz han…
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Are we hallucinating, or has our reality been disrupted? Better call the doctor!
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Remember the days when asking someone “are you seeing things?” was a suggestion that maybe they were hallucinating? Well, things have changed! With the improvement of augmented and virtual reality technology, not only is it normal to see things that aren’t there, we actually seek out the experience! On this episode of Weapons of Mass Disruption, Yo…
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Physics…DISRUPTED! Going off the map with quantum computing
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Since 1965, Moore’s law has explained the exponential increase in computing power, with the number of circuits on a circuit board doubling every 12 months and the price of that computing power decreasing by half. But Moore’s law relies on our understanding of physics, and eventually the laws of physics will prevail. We have been anticipating the en…
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Covid-19 had disrupted our world in numerous ways, but perhaps no industry has been disrupted quite so significantly as healthcare. During the last two years medical facilities have endured significant change. Enter artificial intelligence. From analysis of constantly changing epidemiological data to providing mental health support, AI is changing …
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Detectives Disrupted...Smart Connected People and iDetectives
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If you are a true crime aficionado or just enjoy a good episode of your favorite television police procedural, you have seen the increased role technology plays in forensic analysis, evidence intelligence, and the rise of the cybercriminal. Advances in the Internet of Things have facilitated significant changes in crime solving, incident management…
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Disrupting Perception...Augmented and Virtual Reality
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What is reality? Something we don’t think about is that reality is different for every one of us. It is based on our perceptions. We see things as we are, and we are all different. Enter the world of virtual reality and augmented reality, and things get even weirder. On this episode of WMD, I talk with another of my students in the cybersecurity ma…
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