Entries tagged with: War
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What's the hashtag for terror? For propaganda? I've been talking about the role of social media as a possible enabler of political violence for years. In my June 2009 talk at Mobile Monday in Amsterdam, I argued that Twitter and...
Memorial Day (repost)
(Originally posted on Memorial Day, 2006) Andrew Jackson Wickline, my grandfather, the man I was named for, died [six] years ago, shortly before Memorial Day; a veteran of World War II, he was given a military service on Memorial Day...
More Quick Links
Tired & busy with Superstruct. But check these out: • We're Doomed! DOOOOOMED! Hey, want to see six seven (see comments) middle-aged white guys talk about the end of the world? You're in luck! GLOBAL CATASTROPHIC RISKS: Building A Resilient...
Monday Topsight, August 18, 2008
Special Future of War edition: robots, lasers, brain weapons, and a little thing called "strategic thinking." • 174th Robot Wing: The 174th Fighter Wing of the US Air Force has flown its last mission, and has been replaced by an...
Terraforming War
No nation that sees itself as a great power is going to be willing to risk having its climate and environment completely in the hands of another nation. Research into methodologies for geoengineering will happen simply out of self-preservation --...
The Politics of Geoengineering
Geoengineering -- or, as I sometimes call it, re-terraforming the Earth -- is back in the news, with a sobering editorial in today's New York Times by Carnegie's Dr. Ken Caldeira. Caldeira's commentary arrives in the wake of news that...
Monday Topsight, September 17, 2007
Back in the US now, at least for the next two weeks -- then off to Budapest, to speak at a conference entitled "Visions of the Future. Technology and Society: Global and Local Challenges." Trying to get back into the...
The Lost Hegemon (pt 1)
Rolling Stone assembled a round-table discussion with Richard Clarke, Zbigniew Brzezinski, Bob Graham, Juan Cole and others (from the military, diplomatic and intelligence services) about three scenarios for the end of the US involvement in the Iraq conflict (note I...
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