Welcome to the Future
The British Ministry of Defense has published a chilling report that paints a strange and bleak view of our future - 30 years from now - that sounds like something borne right out of a cross between Children of Men, 1984, and Mad Max, as Britain’s Guardian newspaper notes:
“Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx’s proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe’s drops as fertility falls. ‘Flashmobs’ - groups rapidly mobilised by criminal gangs or terrorists groups.
“This is the world in 30 years’ time envisaged by a Ministry of Defence team responsible for painting a picture of the ‘future strategic context’ likely to face Britain’s armed forces. It includes an ‘analysis of the key risks and shocks’. Rear Admiral Chris Parry, head of the MoD’s Development, Concepts & Doctrine Centre which drew up the report, describes the assessments as ‘probability-based, rather than predictive’.
“An electromagnetic pulse will probably become operational by 2035 able to destroy all communications systems in a selected area or be used against a ‘world city’ such as an international business service hub. The development of neutron weapons which destroy living organs but not buildings ‘might make a weapon of choice for extreme ethnic cleansing in an increasingly populated world’.
“The use of unmanned weapons platforms would enable the ‘application of lethal force without human intervention, raising consequential legal and ethical issues’. The ‘explicit use’ of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons and devices delivered by unmanned vehicles or missiles.”
What does all of this have to do with UFOs? Well, not much; except for the fact that if the above-scenarios prove to be valid, then we won’t need to have aliens amongst us; as we will have created a world ourselves that is truly alien to that of today.
I’m still pretty confident in my belief that as a species we have a very limited future; and if the boffins at the MoD are right; then the end may be closer than we think. If not the end, then seemingly never-ending strife, Big-Brother-style meddling and chaos, at the very least.
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Apr 11 2007 
April 11th, 2007 at 11:57 am
Your subject matter reminded me regarding something read in the book alternative3. Near the end of the book it talks about a fellow that was trying to get info out regarding photos of mars. He was found dead in his car, there was pretty well nothing left of him. Was it a electromagnetic pulse or radiation pulse device that destroyed him, only leaving burn’t marks on the car seat. Decoders and electonic scramblers were even used back then, secrets and lies are the these peoples bedfellows.
April 11th, 2007 at 11:59 am
I agree, It is amazing we made it this far.
April 11th, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Dave/Smylex:
There’s very weird things afoot; and I don’t see it improving for us anytime soon.
April 11th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
Nick:
As I said at Mac’s blog re: the same article -
“Very interesting, although I suspect the MoD has lots of reports and studies that analyse potential future developments, some rosier than this. That’s what they get paid for.
For example, until WWII the Canadian general staff routinely reviewed plans for fighting a war with… the United States! Of course it wasn’t going to happen, but it always pays to be prepared. Besides, in peacetime staff officers have to do something.
The other thing to remember, as a good friend pointed out to me once while I was nattering on about the Singularity, is that we’ve heard all this stuff before - go look at the predictions of futurists fifty or a hundred years ago, and see how many actually came true. The percentages aren’t very good.
So, while it’s important to take note of these things, and keep an eye on the way things are developing, the only way we’ll ever really know what the future holds for us is to get there and find out.”
Paul
April 11th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Paul
I agree: the future could (and may well) take turns that are totally unpredicted. I pointed this out on another list yesterday (and also at mac’s blog) about how effective the Poll Tax Riots were in the UK in bringing down the regime of Thatcher (I refuse to call her “Mrs”).
Granted she wouldn’t have gone on forever (and thank god for that), but the outrage that the British people showed (via demos and outright rioting) when the Government tried to implement something that went against the grain turned the country on its head in a totally unexpected way and led to the fall of that woman.
Same with the fall of the Soviet Union. Unexpected and changed the world.
That said, I still don’t think that the human race stands even the remotest chance of lasting more than a few centuries.
April 12th, 2007 at 7:33 am
People, by and large, are pretty poor prognosticators. They are limited to making predictions based on what is and that kind of “Maginot Line” thinking tends to be pretty inaccurate.
I think that humans will survive but that they will increasingly merge with their machines. I’ve sometimes thought that our alleged alien visitors may really be here to witness this evolutionary step.
S
April 12th, 2007 at 8:22 am
S:
We may well survive - in pockets here and there. I think the chance of everyone going out is remote. It’s probably more accurate for me to say that in my opinion our civilization will burn out, and there will be some left to pick up the pieces.
I forgot this in my main post yesterday, the link to the complete PDF of the MoD report:
http://www.mod.uk/NR/rdonlyres/5CB29DC4-9B4A-4DFD-B363-3282BE255CE7/0/strat_trends_23jan07.pdf
April 12th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Paul:
Re your comment about a plan for war between Canada and the US - it couldn’t happen. Could it…?
See:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070412/sc_nm/globalwarming_water_dc
April 12th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Paul
It is intresting to note that Harper and Bush have a few things in common, their both traitors to their countries. They both enjoy sending their countries children to murder or be murdered for a false state of peace and a big bomb. They both have proven that crimes by their kind can be hidden from the very people they are suppose to represent. Both countries are becoming more policed just like what happened in germany(nazi party); to which, I read Bushes grand father and possibbly that skull club were their financiars. There is a group trying to join canada up with the Usa and harper is in bed with bush, so I don’t see a war between the two. Just the same old squabbles on the surfaces and constant lies to all the their peoples. What do I know I live in a igloo…not.
April 12th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
Dave,
If you lived in an igloo, you would be cooler. Is that cryptic enough?
I don’t think Bush is a traitor, he is a spokes-figurehead for a system even he does not understand. A system that looks out for it’s own protection and uses the nation to hold it up. Since the economy is the energy source for this system, the system will destroy anything that threatens the economy. I.E. we invaded Iraq shortly after Saddam started selling oil for Euros. It’s almost brainless, but cold, logical and utterly ruthless. To make matters worse it is international and many many people serve the system, including me and you. It is the thing that Patrick McGoohan was fighting against throughout the famous “Prisoner” TV series and the awful truth is that every one of us is “Number 1″
That being said, I have to believe in my own right that the biblical end of world scenario is likely to occur. I just can’t say when or that I would even recognise it as it went down.
No, things are not getting better, but then people didn’t didn’t think things were great when Pandemic flu killed millions in a single year or 44 thousand soldiers died on one day at the battle of Verdun. How about the seige of Jerusalem in 70 A.D? Titus killed more Jews than Hitler ever thought of killing.
So, maybe things arn’t all that bad right now.
Jess
April 13th, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Jess
Sorry that I am not cool especially to a so called spokes-figurehead that doesn’t understand a system that hasn’t the ability to learn from the past as it has become a soulless entity. I have nothing against protecting ones country or self: but, for oil and ego… who financed these so called terrorists anyway? Jess you appear wise, do you think ufo’s are run on oil and or gas? Well guess what as long as the oil barrens control things no harmonic energy systems will surface to aid the balance of harmonic thought towards peace on this planet or advancements in free energy devices. Sure you are right that there are others that follow this system even joyfully, it just saddens me that it is so odvious and these very actions are paving the way to destuction of life. Just like the bible program to which is written and followed also and rewritten by the secret elite. Personally, I wish I was wrong regarding Harper and Bush being traitors to their own; but, if he can label me as a terrorist; because I disagree with their unbrotherly actions who’s the real terrorist. Just as UFO’s exist so does bad governing practices, believe it or not. Today things aren’t that bad .. tommorrow?
April 13th, 2007 at 5:43 pm
Nick,
as Paul (Kimball) says, many’ve made predictions over the centuries predicting the imminent doom of mankind, and no such end has so far materialised, but never before has there been a time when a small highly dedicated group or even a single extremely clever individual could produce the kind of weaponry that could effect precisely such an apocalypse.
I lived on the housing estate the Toxteth Riots basically began and ended on, and that was a microcosm of the sort of apocalyptic vision outlined above. Even before the riots broke out, the police were trying to do this Blairesque thing of constantly trying to control and monitor our every movements whenever we tried to leave or get back on the estate - the ultimate result being the riots.
My main hope is that all of this manoeuvring and jockeying for position on whose vision for the future of the world gets to predominate is down to an underlying global sense that things as they presently stand are throughly crap, and getting ever crapper -especially for kids and young people - and therefore heralds the possibility some new inconceivable paradigm is struggling to emerge.
But people being people, I suppose, they’d have to be made thoroughly and utterly disillusioned with the present situation before they’d willingly surrender it for any such new one.
April 14th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Alan:
I’m not sure what the ultimate outcome would be. In a hypotethical situation, if things got really bad I would hope that people would realize what was going on. The Poll Tax events proved that push the people too far and then you’ll see what happens.
April 15th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Dave,
Those are some interesting thoughts. I am not sure what you refer to with “the bible program.”
As far as UFOs being run on gas?
Well, I have often thought that crude oil and gasoline had paranormal properties. In fact I am not 100% convinced that they are not resources that actually replennish, appear and disappear almost randomly around the world. But I guess thats just one mans crackpot theory.
Jess
April 16th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
Jess
Cryptically speaking I have been warned regarding subject matter to be touched on, thanks for your previous warning. As like politics and religious info it is the heart of the disinformational matter, that has aided in the lack of getting to the bottom of the subject regarding Ufo’s, aliens or even the reptilian being(s).
Regarding the ufo’s running on gas they don’t, if they did they would probably be used in a closed loop system to prevent enviromental leakage and it would allow its’ paranormal properties to manifest into another form of action and energy without loss.
Nick, If I get out of hand regarding my input on your blog let me know. I will try not to get out of line as we all have experianced things that may be not of the norm. Yet, to some the truth hurts when experiance hasn’t happened to them. The sasquatch lives and the ufo’s are a reality, time will tell if they are human or alien driven.
April 16th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Dave
Nope, all is fine re postings. Always glad to hear what you have to say on issues.
April 16th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
Dave,
Maybe I misunderstood. I was far from offended by anything you said. My Igloo quip was merely a play on words and emotion. I was seeking to engage you in debate or even banter if thats what you felt like doing.
My thinking is that debate and exchange of ideas is going to carry us much further in these studies than hunting down discarded spark plugs and old newspapers at “alien crash sites.”
If anyone is stiffling their own speech or ideas for my benefit they had better stop right now. That isn’t going to help anyone. As far as being offended by subject matter; also won’t happen. I’ve spent time in the infantry and I am numb even to the most pornographic of insults.
If I have stepped on toes I apologise, but I also think it will be useful in this “town hall” of UFOlogy expirament. Thanks.
Jesse
April 17th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Jesse
I thought you were telling me to be cooler on my so called bantering regarding Harper and Bush; but, I do thank you for your reply and input also.
Now my feeling is if the powers that are were honest and used its’ people for creative actions instead of unhuman and destructive actions, we would be closer to understand the very subject that appears to be cloaked in secrets and outright denial.
Regarding pornographic of insults??? I have no control of edits done when I made a joke on a company that belittles the great spirit’s creation to sell their fleshly products.
It may appear to you and others that I banter on, well so be it. What brings me to this subject of ufo phenomina is not from newspapers, it is hands on experiance; eventhough, it has been sometime ago that these realities crossed my path.
These were some of the most humbling experiances for me and to just say they are not a reality…sorry. That is a grain of sand to the realities that surround us all.
Otherwise, give the dogs a petting.