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When Edison used the AC of Westinghouse Electric to kill animals and prisoners to show it was "dangerous"... that was a funny one.
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Polonium poisoning is a thing.
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The Pokemon Go geotracking strategy was unnexpected.
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Mmmmm... fake news by governments actually.
As a governmen, alredy fighting for physical borders, i'd be desperete to define the virtual borders of the social media opinions. So nationalizing and ideologizing the virtual spaces of each social media would work out an incomunication between different sides.
So we are still behind.
2. The internet
3. Gain of Function Research
4. mRNA vaccines
5. They already are
1) re: "Think about the absurdity of the late 1950s, in which..."
Unthinkable. Think about? What do schoolkids today "think about" school shooter drills? What do they experience that might not be "thoughts"?
When I rationally 'think' about the CONELRAD drills I
As primarily primates that can lie for personal or social power,
To A your Qs: yes, tools are deadlier now, but tools are tools. For me, it’s ab our ability to whistleblow evil.
1: computers, tv, radio
2: chemical weapons
3: AI, genetics
4: self driving tanks + planes using AI+GPS or swarm drones, robotic soldiers; more developed cyber weapons
5: invest more in education against desinformation and have somekind of cyber army