Computer hackers and visionary scientists have a prime opportunity to create “escape routes” that will thwart the efforts of the government and the military to “capture and enslave” liberatory technologies such as computer networks.
Predictor: De Landa, Manuel
Prediction, in context:In a 1993 article for Wired magazine, Gareth Branwyn relates his view of Manuel De Landa’s new book “War in the Age of Intelligent Machines” [1991, MIT Press], a historical analysis of military technology, control, command and communications. Branwyn writes: ”‘War in the Age of Intelligent Machines’ tracks the U.S. military’s long-standing tradition of centralizing decision-making, and in the last decade, of transferring advisory and even executive-level decisions to machines. De Landa introduces us to a future robot historian, a second narrator of sorts that is charting its own genealogy … De Landa believes that the introduction of personal computers has worked at cross-purposes to the military’s strategy of centralizing battlefield management. He argues that computer hackers and visionary scientists have a prime opportunity to create ‘escape routes’ that will thwart the efforts of the government and the military to ‘capture and enslave’ liberatory technologies such as computer networks … De Landa deftly applies some post-modern philosophy and the latest developments in the science of chaos and self-organizing systems. He looks at turbulent flows (migrations, crusades, invasions), singularities (points where order emerges from chaos), coherency, and many varieties of systemic noise, all as they apply to the emergence of military hardware, software, and wetware (the implant of technology directly into the body) … It is … a further exploration of the philosophy developed by Deleuze, Guattari, and Virilio, and a statement of inspiration and hope to those of us who work in the trenches fighting for decentralized, humane, and symbiotic relationships with machines.”
Date of prediction: January 1, 1993
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: Peacekeeping/Warfare
Name of publication: Wired
Title, headline, chapter name: The Machines Take Over War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/1.01/streetcred.html
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