Knowledge Versus Terror: Knowledge Transfer to Address the Terrorist Threat to the Smart City

We are living in changing times dictated by a pandemic of middle age dimensions, and yet the old world with its climate change, environmental degradation (due to climate change), organized crime and terrorism is still with us. There is an inherent connection between terrorism and organized crime though there is a cultural gap between them as the first is driven by ideology. The phenomenon of terrorism that exploits the opportunity of pandemics is undoubtedly in need of investigation and study. We are interested in widespread dissemination of knowledge to produce a global front against the pandemic, yet on the other hand, we are limited by fear that this knowledge will be exploited for terrorist purposes. We will look for a solution based on global efforts and not on the self-capabilities of competing nation-states, though this approach is far from achieving consensus considering what we see in Israel, in the U.S., and in other countries. Many claim that the Corona crisis is just a general return to the reality that awaits us because of the climate crisis. If we knew how to benefit from human knowledge and how to share it, this could be the opportunity for humanity to survive and even flourish in this new world that will grow on the ruins of the old world that will not survive climate change.