Elon Musk posts this yesterday. It's the beginning of the "The Guns of August" book about the prelude to World War 1 which talks about the end of an empire (or the last gasp of the Victorian era way of life) and what led to the war to end all wars.
Elon has sank enormous amounts of money into Starlink, and, regardless of the hype, it isn't so you can download a movie in seconds onto your smartphone (perhaps while in the middle of hiking the Pacific Crest Trail or some other remote place). My conspiratorial mind thinks the purpose of Starlink is to have instantaneous global control over AI robots - but nobody really knows and he's not talking.
Elon's Twatter post after this talks about the nine rings given to men and is from the "Lord of Rings" trilogy.
Anyone else worried about this? We're all tightly focused on Afghanistan and Covid crap, and Elon is apparently on another subject altogether. Or is it? Your thoughts?
Nine rings to the nine ruling families (was 12). Knowledge is power, and control of that knowledge via technology is ultimate power.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
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