May GG Report: The War for the Future | John Robb on Patreon

World War 3 is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. Marshall McLuhan 1968

The western world is now engaged in a guerrilla information war, and it s a guerrilla war where everyone is a participant, whether they know it or not. We can see evidence of this war all around us.

• We saw it in the sudden, unexpected, and potentially catastrophic mobilization for a global war with Russia after it invaded Ukraine.
• We see it in the efforts to control online speech, the war on misinformation, and the disconnection of politicians.
• We see it in the increasing distrust of institutions and experts.

This is an online war to decide who controls the western technosphere an environment of interconnected technological artifacts that most of the world is now living within.

What does control of the network technosphere provide the winner? It provides the winner with the ability to:

• to set and strictly enforce standards of speech and behavior of billions, both online and offline (increasingly).
• to direct or redirect public debate and political discourse (either to solve problems or control outcomes).
• implement sweeping social change on a global scale using online incentives, control over information flows, and draconian punishments (the ability to disconnect dissenters).

Let s explore this a bit.

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I like John Robb. He does take an extremely bleak view of the future, however.