Just following orders: Brazilian flash mob

The British Ministry of Defense describes its new report on future strategic threats as “probability-based, rather than predictive.” The two sound the same to me. It’s the Brits’ best guess at what the future holds.

The predictions also jibe with Alan Watt‘s predictions for widespread human brain-chipping, which the MoD expects by 2035.

The MoD report refers to masses of brain-chipped humans–mobilized by governments or gangsters–as “flashmobs.”

Today, flash mobs, such as those organized in 2003 by alternate reality games “queen bee” Jane McGonigal, seem harmless enough. Flash mobbers in major cities use cell phones and the internet to meet in the street, where they flash disconcerting, Nazi-like salutes (see the Brazilian flash mob, above) and have pillow fights.

But what will it take to replace those pillows with clubs? Perhaps not much, given the right signal to a brain chip, or even a cell phone.

clipped from www.guardian.co.uk Revolution, flashmobs, and brain chips. A grim vision of the future Information chips implanted in the brain. Electromagnetic pulse weapons. The middle classes becoming revolutionary, taking on the role of Marx’s proletariat. The population of countries in the Middle East increasing by 132%, while Europe’s drops as fertility falls. “Flashmobs” – groups rapidly mobilised by criminal gangs or terrorists groups.This is the world in 30 years’ time envisaged by a Ministry of Defence team responsible for painting a picture of the “future strategic context” likely to face Britain’s armed forces. It includes an “analysis of the key risks and shocks”.