Laser weapons, advanced drone warfare, and nation states around the globe redefined by climate change: this is the world in 2084, envisioned by authors Jim Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman.
Both are veterans -- Ackerman, a former Marine, did five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan; Stavridis is a retired four-star admiral and a former supreme allied commander of NATO. Their novel 2084 is the third in a trilogy. They compare their work to cold war fiction like Dr. Strangelove -- stories that imagined disasters specifically so society would work to avoid them. In this episode, they unpack what dangers they see on the distant horizon.
Death by Robot is the biggest 21st century war concern imo
Game Theory #12: The Law of Eschatological Convergence
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When we all have pocket telephones (a 1919 comic)
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How to Build a Power Grid on the Moon
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Meme: And thus the problem of Global Warming was solved once and for all
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Not every advancement is positive, but it's hard to close Pandora's Box
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