Re:A new abnormal: It is still 2 minutes to midnight
by zaroth on Sunday October 13, 2019 @12:10PM
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Wikipedia says the recent bump to “2 minutes” was taken due to;
> The most recent officially announced setting—2 minutes to midnight—was made in January 2018, which was left unchanged in 2019 due to the twin threats of nuclear weapons and climate change, and the problem of those threats being "exacerbated this past year by the increased use of information warfare to undermine democracy around the world, amplifying risk from these and other threats and putting the future of civilization in extraordinary danger.”
Those same systems which enabled “increased use of information warfare” also enabled the rise of Greta Thunberg from a kid skipping school to the face of a movement speaking at the UN.
I’m pretty sure you can’t have systems which enable the later without enabling the former.
And given the choice between having or not having those systems, I think we are better off with them than without them.
Therefore is it reasonable to conclude that they moved the clock forward based on technological advances which should have actually rolled the clock back?
> The most recent officially announced setting—2 minutes to midnight—was made in January 2018, which was left unchanged in 2019 due to the twin threats of nuclear weapons and climate change, and the problem of those threats being "exacerbated this past year by the increased use of information warfare to undermine democracy around the world, amplifying risk from these and other threats and putting the future of civilization in extraordinary danger.”
Those same systems which enabled “increased use of information warfare” also enabled the rise of Greta Thunberg from a kid skipping school to the face of a movement speaking at the UN.
I’m pretty sure you can’t have systems which enable the later without enabling the former.
And given the choice between having or not having those systems, I think we are better off with them than without them.
Therefore is it reasonable to conclude that they moved the clock forward based on technological advances which should have actually rolled the clock back?