On 12/12/12, I had minor knee surgery and I can recall thinking how fascinating it was to have a significant event happen to me on a day marked by triplet twelves. One doesn’t need to be a numerology hobbyist to appreciate a distinctive date on the calendar.
With the year 2020 just three years off, and the date’s symbolic connection to 20-20 or perfect vision, we thought it would be thought-provoking to hear how professionals in the security industry envision the future as it may play out by 2020. In “20 Visions for Security in the Year 2020,” starting on page 52, we hear from manufacturers, software developers, central stations, security dealers and security integrators about the shape of things to come in nine different areas — among them, technology, human resources, purchasing trends, monitoring and more.