Throughout history especially Europe, being the most violent place on earth, used war to extend aged and outdated systems in place, to unite and over shadow inner conflict by a war against an outsider. Many until today believe that conflict and war are base for fast progress and technological advancement even so no technology, no machine was imagined and designed during war times, but instead almost all advances of technology during war are based on abusing civilian designs to destruct and kill. Gliders and planes for fun or to travel far distances were turned into war birds and the first rockets designed in pre war times to bring humans into space by the same person that also imagined how space stations could look like were abused to carry bombs to kill and never saw space.
Progress by conflict is an illusion, because the opponent is made stay behind and fall back while the winner is moving on usually not realising where to, being focused on the enemy instead of the end of his track.
Today our system is facing more and more difficulties from delayed and even failed major building projects to limited advances of artificial intelligence turning the singularity further away or into a marketing gag, a virus striking our medical system unprepared and an ecological global nightmare in front, yet we keep heading high speed further right into climate callops incapable of changing our lifestyle using all excuses possible.
So, no that battery car is not saving the planet but is way more inefficient and worse for the environment globally than what we got being based on difficult to mine minerals and doubtful sources of electricity transported in inefficient grids stored in short lived inefficient batteries. Your Bio-Food will not save the planet neither, because bio production rules make agriculture inefficient and therefore expensive and cannot feed all of the planets growing population.
All alternative developments are heading in doubtful directions, too. Genetic manipulated plants are supposed to be tomatoes tasting like bananas instead of more prospers crops carrying more corn using less water and being more resistant against poisoning disease, using machines that would enable those plants being planted on heterogamous instead monoculture farm fields. Cars are turned more potent and more luxurious with more features instead of more efficient, fuel economic, durable and post production upgradable.
There is a tiny possibility that some leaders of this more than ever interconnected world might consider turning the usual show of force currently going on in Ukraine and the Chinese Sea into a wide scale conflict believing that they can rebuild from the ashes of that conflict, like a restart, the system that brought them to the top, again. The Great Reset conspiracies are out and are the New World Order conspiracies next level.
From all I understand of military war fare of the past and cold war military development I doubt that an old school World War like conflict can be managed by any leadership. World War 2 ended in quite a chaos really and information technology within modern armies did not make it that far below special forces level, beside a few ten thousand nuclear war heads still around that will be the very last and ultimate final argument in a world war between today’s super powers, save.
But, even the most old and ancient heads in supreme think tanks have understood that not a tank or war head will win a war, but information usually called “intel”, I guess.
Just recently the U.S. mobility backbone was hit by a cyberattack. Someone turned down a major fuel depot and along with it a lot of movement as prices gone up or fuel was missing completely.
Information flow is more key to all economies ever than buildings and soldiers in arms. Asymmetric war fare proofed that even a low tech equipped force can turn war for a high tech super power into an long run nightmare impossible to win, win like in world war peace treaties.
Instead of crossing the border to Russia in Ukraine or sinking Chinese ships defending freedom cyber war fare will appear most likely way more attractive to powerful stupids believing in conflict as a fruitful solution.
The main difference between first and second world war was that the civil population was slaughtered, even more than soldiers. In German occupied areas survival chances were actually bigger as a soldier than as an orthodox Jew.
Apparently, the internet was designed to withstand nuclear attacks and would keep functioning even radio active rain would create way different problems for everyone than checking emails.
In the same way that no one in Germany nor anyone within the liberators really understood the threat the Nazis and them introducing total war into the history of war fare before Blitzkrieg were, I am pretty sure that those men in think tanks that pushed money into developing mini-nukes, tiny nuclear weapons, instead of light wight, flexible, save body armour for all infantrists are capable of understanding by just a glimpse what cyber ware far could do.
Even George W. Bush’s grandpa managed to get prosecuted for dealing with the enemy and that family strikes me as hill billies but no fascists, but I am sure that todays think tank staff did not get any wiser.
Nuclear power plants are controlled by computers, the military rocket arsenal equipped with nuclear war heads is controlled by computers, your bunkers are controlled by computers, your laboratories used for ABC research are controlled by computers, your supply lines are controlled by computers, your traffic grid needed for civil protections and supply is controlled by computers, your electricity grid is controlled by computers and even the washing machines of your laundry service keeping your shirts spot less white are computer controlled.
Most of these systems are save experts will confirm and what could go wrong? Like what could go wrong skipping research on Corona Virus medication or letting Adolf Hitler and Rudolf Hess out of a Bavarian prison?
