2013-06-28, 22:36 | Link #1143 |
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"The world is constantly being destabilized by change. Take the Smartphone.
Once Nokia was king. Apple is now being threatened by Samsung and all in less than a decade. Most any innovation is either disruptive or transformational. Often it is both. Viewed in this way man is in an arms race against himself. The Chinese come up with the DF-1, the USN comes up with a fleet that can launch drones from thousands of miles away, refueled by Global Hawk tankers, none of which can be seen for beans. Doubtless the Chinese will come up with something better. And then the USN will trump that. And so on. In a way none of this is bothersome so long as nobody actually uses these gizmos to fight. But to think it will go away and we'll buy the world a Coke is probably not in the cards. To a great extent this reduces technology to a background given. It will always be there, disrupting, transforming. What really matters is the human factor. What matters is governance. In a hundred years we'll be two orders of magnitude more powerful than today. But arguably we will be stupider, given current trends. It's not the tech that worries me. It's the stupid." --- Richard Fernandez |
2013-06-29, 21:08 | Link #1146 |
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"There are 2 things that are infinite: The universe and humanity's stupidity, but I am not quite sure about the former"
"The horizon of many people is a circle with zero radius and that is what they call their 'point of view' " -Albert Einstein
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2013-07-02, 21:33 | Link #1147 |
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Been doing a lot of weapon related courses recently and one that always makes me smile is the reference to engaging an enemy. Normally proceeded by either "shooting/incapacitating or shooting near an enemy"
"They'll lose interest in a gunfight quick."
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