Geofutures

Foresight in geopolitics, global trends, and security affairs (with an eye on science fiction)

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Foresight ignored: years of war games predicted Iran closing the Straight of Hormuz if attacked -- https://t.co/8rdDyIM4wA

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Futurist at the movies microreview: "Into the Forest," which came out 10 years ago today, and is one of the better futurist films of 2016.

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"Cuba would be harder than Venezuela to reconstruct, both politically and economically." "Every option is fraught. A deal big enough to satisfy Messrs Trump and Rubio looks hard to achieve; military action may fail to accomplish what diplomacy has not." https://t.co/9Q9C2P9x9f

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@KatyKelleher A footnote to your National Geographic color photo story: that "unidentified landscape" has a pretty distinct horizon profile, and I bet the OSINT types could locate the place pretty easily.

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"A more radical option is to offer workers direct stakes in the progress of AI. One way to do this would be to spread ownership of the companies developing the technology more widely, whether by handing out shares or through sovereign-wealth funds." https://t.co/Vn33dfdNF1

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Futurist at the movies microreview: "A Quiet Place 2," which came out 5 years ago today.

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“Not only can our military not save American democracy, it can’t even save itself from democracy.” https://t.co/sxjsQahc2F

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Futurist at the movies microreview: "X-Men: The Last Stand," which came out 20 years ago today.

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Trump could blunder into a complex, messy, and possibly bloody situation in Cuba -- https://t.co/1EZeZRLAb7

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Futurist at the movies microreview: "Escape from the Planet of the Apes," which came out 55 years ago today.

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If the construction company plays its cards right, it can also switch midway to the arch demolition contract.

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Trump's patriotic dream of building a giant 250ft 'Triumphal Arch' could still be derailed https://t.co/3U2oMQ4DH7

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Futurist at the movies microreview: "Melancholia," which came out 15 years ago today.

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Futurist at the movies microreview: "Master of the World," which came out 65 years ago today.

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"By 2100, 46% of all people under 25 are projected to live in Africa, compared with 39% in Asia." https://t.co/bi9MSWLL2V

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Futurist at the movies microreview: "Outland," which came out 45 years ago today.

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"If political violence committed in the president’s name is not only tolerated but actively rewarded, it could take this already bleak timeline somewhere much, much darker." https://t.co/iTWxf1XBIk

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Futurist at the movies microreview: "Escape from New York," which came out 45 years ago today. Many American cities are doing better than they were in 1981; the chance of great power war dropped since then, but is now rising again.

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@gmail In the last few days Gmail in iOS has been duplicating draft emails but erasing the content and replacing it with the subject line. The empty duplicates multiply.

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I encountered one of the surviving crew members of the Nostromo.

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This is one of the simplest maps that explains how power is shifting in the world -- and how this isn't the Cold War, during which the USSR was peripheral. https://t.co/5rrUCja0dW