If you are like me, you are completely fascinated with the up and coming Royal Wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton. I wonder how many people realize how many tech jobs are required to pull off such a spectacle. The security detail alone is a technological masterpiece. The London police have been scanning, video surveying, and digitizing every aspect of the procession route. It is estimated that the security will cost around 20 million pounds, that’s 32.6 million US dollars. According to ABC News; London has an amazing closed circuit television camera system (CCTC) that allows them to keep an eye on hundreds of people at once. These cameras have a high enough resolution that they can zoom in on an individual’s facial features. These cameras are linked back to a command center with huge banks of monitors. The security officials will be using “Cognitive Visual Affirmation”, a sophisticated technique that allows experts to watch for body language that is suspicious.
Another form of technology that will be used is Youtube. Youtube is going to stream the wedding live. And, during the ceremony, the channel will also have live blog commentary of the event, which is set to begin at 5 a.m. Eastern time. YouTube’s parent company, Google, is “thrilled” to be broadcasting the event; spokeswoman Rachel Ball wrote on the Internet giant’s official blog. The wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton will be “the first of the Internet age, where for the first time in thousands of years of royal history, the moment will be captured online and preserved forever,” she said. Not to mention, over 2 billion people from around the world plan on watching or following the wedding in some capacity. Even the Royal Family already has its own official Facebook page to keep people informed of every little detail concerning the betrothed. People are encouraged to go on and leave a video message to send their well wishes to the happy couple.
Now, there is a down side to all of this awesome technology. Norton warns against cyber-attacks on anything related to the Royal Wedding. A recent study by Norton shows that 62 percent of Americans say they'll be following the wedding events (one-third of which are looking online for royal wedding news), which means its prime time for hackers to hide within hot-topic searches. Be wary of any site saying they have unseen footage or scandalous footage of anyone relating to the wedding. Just be smart about how you browse the biggest event of the past few decades, and you should be fine.
It amazes me that something so traditional, as historic as a British royal wedding has so much state-of-the-art technology surrounding it. It makes me want to get in on the action. You too? Go to techcareers.com and find out where you fit in.
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