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Re:Ten Year Futures by pharrlax on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @11:11PM (#14262131)
I'm increasingly convinced everyone is going to continue not to care, and then suddenly a 9/11-scale (or greater) event will occur, and it'll be 2002 all over again -- wild overreaction driven by hysteria.
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Re:Ten Year Futures by pavement on Thursday May 04, 2017 @01:30AM (#14262650) 

  (or greater)
Wide-spread internet-enabled command and control, plus long term surreptitious reconnaissance, coupled together with machine learning to maximize impact, and I'll hazard a guess that such a scenario can reach beyond the destruction of 4 full airplanes and 3 inhabited large buildings, in ways too uncomfortable to contemplate.
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Re:Ten Year Futures by jacobush on Thursday May 04, 2017 @06:22AM (#14263806)
The impact of 9/11 was not just some airplanes and buildings - the impact was the whole of the Middle East in turmoil and a refugee wave not seen since WW2.
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