Freaky China Weapons 2021

I was reading this really old science fiction novel the other day, and I started wondering how much of China might already be under the control of some form of artificial intelligence. What if the higher-ups in the CCP actually retired from government long ago? What if Skynet (or the Matrix) was running things in China now?

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Nope, Orwell was all about the hooman stuff. Technologically speaking he saw two-way video screens coming, but his focus was always on the psychological/political stuff.

Flying robot armies is more Neal’s thing, and I think broadly speaking he’s right, but he gets the politics (mostly) wrong.

If the two of them someone had a brainchild together, that would replace our need to ask Discobot about the future. :crystal_ball: :robot:

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Maybe we’re all controlled by techno necromancers from Alpha Centauri.

Sorry, I can neither confirm nor deny that. :zipper_mouth_face:

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