"We're stuck in a paradigm of databases," McDavid said later. "How do we jump out of our infrastructure and start conceptualizing those threats? That's very cool."
Posted on 05/24/2009 7:48:58 PM PDT by Stoat
"We're stuck in a paradigm of databases," McDavid said later. "How do we jump out of our infrastructure and start conceptualizing those threats? That's very cool."
Cue the Twilight Zone music ping.
Interesting, but....
there’s so much else going on in real time.
THANKS Stoat for the ping.
I do enjoy looking at futuristic thinking and technology.
Imagine a future where American Citizens are armed and educated enough, and the nation is feared or respected enough, to not need a nanny bureaucracy filled with sycophants trying to justify their subsequent year budgetary increases...
Yeah well the stories i imagine are of the struggles between the Bilderbergers and a rough & ready underground that they still can’t get to. People who can do things and improvise whose children are snatched (& implanted with chips so they can’t escape) because they have traditional education & can function at high level while their own children are useless druggies and perverts (think Caligula et al & the barbarians ....
better plot. better movie.
Similar to a plot thread in the novel "Footfall" by Niven and Pournelle.
I’m not much of a Sci-Fi reader but I have met Greg Bear, Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Would like to say they are all nice guys, but anyone who knows Pournelle, knows that he is disagreeably ornery just because he can get away with it.
I would believe that. I used to read his columns in Byte (I think it was)... Got the impression he liked things his way.
I’m trying to make sense of this. The Dept of Homeland Security was organized to guard the “homeland” against terrorist attacks on US soil. But the Obama administration has decided that there really isn’t a “War on Terror”, just “overseas contingency operations”.
The Beltway crowd in the DHS never was too excited about looking for terrorists, and just need “a mission they can believe in”. So they began to compile a list of “right wing extremists”, i.e., people with military backgrounds who had Ron Paul bumper stickers and don’t like gay marriage or infanticide. Unfortunately, that plan went over like a turd in a punchbowl with the “unenlightened” element of our population.
Now in its desperation, the DHS has resorted to hiring science fiction writers to suggest things to do with taxpayer money? Why doesn’t out Messiah just put the DHS out of its misery and decrease the budget deficit that he “inherited”? Comeon! How does that add to his list of “jobs saved”?
Not so much fiction as it is future, any more...
Let me guess... launched by white racists?? Probably targeted those innocent and poor arabs too.
these ‘novelists’ are likely all lefties
Pournelle sure isn’t!
Vietvet
was he there? cool.
Pournelle is an admitted former communist who converted to more or less libertarianism. He’s no friend of lefties now.
economically, I am pretty libertarian too.
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