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@johnrobb 2/ Final Computing Solutions. "World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between civilian and military participation." McLuhan in a 2017 Atlantic Council report on radically enhanced capabilities of AI-driven computational-propaganda for mind manipulation

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 5 Jan 2025

@MrEwanMorrison And, sadly, child's play relative to, say, the massive acceleration of vast, machine-driven resources of dominative structures of power and consciousness deliberately shaping universal attention span in their psychotic image. A World War, suddenly centered upon perception itself.

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Bingo. *Choice* excerpt, Nils. Peculiar, isn't it, the evolutionary ontology of a noospheric, algorithmically-supercharged claim upon the private soul, and the planetary harvest of consequence, consciousness and disclosure it radically enhances, remaining, as a rule, unobserved.

"World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between civilian and military participation." That's Marshall McCluhan headlining a 2017 Atlantic Council report on the radically enhanced capabilities of AI-driven computational-propaganda for mind manipulation.

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3/ Martin Gurri: “That was me at the global media analysis section of CIA...And I was not alone. A group of us were obsessed with the same drama...We all asked the same question: Why? What does information technology have to do with politics?”
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Copy of tweet here: Bingo. *Choice* excerpt, Nils. Peculiar, isn't it, the evolutionary ontology of a noospheric, algorithmically-supercharged claim upon the private soul, and the planetary harvest of consequence, consciousness and disclosure it radically enhances, remaining, as a rule, unobserved. "World War III will be a guerilla information war, with no division between civilian and military participation." That's Marshall McCluhan headlining a 2017 Atlantic Council report on the radically enhanced capabilities of AI-driven computational-propaganda for mind manipulation. Copy of tweet: Nick Routledge 3/ Martin Gurri: “That was me at the global media analysis section of CIA...And I was not alone. A group of us were obsessed with the same drama...We all asked the same question: Why? What does information technology have to do with politics?”

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Quoted by@ArtaMoeini This isn't exactly news.Quoted by@MosabAbuToha @ahmermkhan Meta and Final Computing Solutions.Quoted by@DoubleDownNews Pete Berkman: "When the environment is invisible, the path of least resistance is determined by the medium itself. Our plans plan us. In order to recover human agency over technique, the invisible environment has to be made visible. “Apocalypse,” McLuhan says, “is our salvation.”