2019. WHAT SHOULD THE WORLD EXPECT?

 It’s here. The year of Blade Runner. The year of flying cars and a ruined environment. The year where artificial intelligence is hunted after it questioned its existence.  In 1982, they had a somewhat unrealistic concept of just how far humans will have advanced by 2019, but then again, who really can predict the future…..well….besides the Environmentalist, or so they think!

Real Changes:

            Flying cars? Yep. Got them, but not like the snazzy ones in the movie. Will that concept really take off…😊…. Not for a longtime is my bet, if at all. Autonomous cars, that’s the real question right now. No drivers in the delivery vehicles, 18 wheelers and maybe even the planes. It seems those concepts are here now and show every indication of taking place on a global scale. Not only driverless vehicles and planes, but now you simply have to speak in your room and within hours the items show up at your door! Amazing. that’s one concept Blade Runner missed!

Big Government and Global Companies?

            In both Blade Runner movies, who is the real villain? A huge, all consuming, corrupt government, 1984, or a massive corporation that basically is the government? Here is a part of the story the writers may have gotten right beyond even their imaginations. 2019 is a technological world that has expanded beyond the comprehension of just about everyone who depends on it. Amazon, Apple, Google, are these merely the 21^st Century versions of the East India Company? Has the concept of huge corporations shaping the future of nations and their governments really changed? Just how dependent has the world become on these big three and those just like them? Only a few days ago, Apple made a comment about possible, future economic issues based on forecast for China and the US markets tanked. Is that a weapon? Do “others” see that as a weapon? Can you take corporate news, mix it with social media and drive the world, to include your enemies, into a frenzy? Absolutely. In a world run by electronic communications, words have become the equal of nuclear weapons. Information is power. It’s more than power. It’s the weapon that has no bomb shelter.

Words:

            Last week, a Chinese Admiral gave a presentation to the 2018 Military Industry List summit. In that presentation, Admiral Lou made the statement China made need to sink two US Aircraft Carriers in order to settle the South China Seas “issue”. Was this just some Hawk, as the Western Media played it, speaking out of turn? Does anyone think this Admiral was allowed to address the Military Industry List summit and just speak out of turn? The bases for his argument was the lack of resolve on the part of the American people and how the reality of huge casualty numbers would bend the declining will of the US population. Was he wrong in his argument? I fear he was not. Was his audience the Americans who were listening to his lecture? No. His targeted audience were the potential Allies of the US. The message was simple, “Be careful who you align yourself with in the near future”. Is this information warfare? You bet it is. Is the weapons platform one made by large telecommunication corporations? Yes. So why wasn’t the message a real shockwave inside the US? Easy. It had no room to grow inside a day to day world of the political circus the US now calls “government”. A Chinese Admiral openly brings up the issue of a frail US society and how it may be time to bring them blood on a massive scale. Is that a change in 2019? Only if someone other than the intelligence community picked up on the event. So, back to my question. What is more dangerous in 2019? Huge corporations that shape our day to day lives, or powerful, aggressive nations that see the time is near to truly test the United States? Well, what about a nation that has learned to use one to archive the other? Not a new concept when you look at the Western, Military Industrial Complex and its marriage to politics. But this new event may look much different than the weapons of the past. Much…..much different than the tanks, bombers or aircraft carriers of the above stated “complex”. The Dragon continues to build the rival, corporate Battleships. The three juggernaut ships of the West, Apple, Google, Amazon rule the seas, but for how much longer and by the way, whose flag to they really fly? Are the three of them based on some patriotic task given them by the government? Do all three of them look at the scenes of the corporate headquarters in Blade Runner with anything but pure envy? Did not all three of the juggernauts make “deals” in order to gain greater access into the Chinese market? Does China see that event as anything other than the US’s attempt to infiltrate and disrupt their plans? How do they counter this process? Why, with their own juggernauts of course. But, there’s a catch. These new Battleships may look like corporations, but when you peel the onion, you find the truth. When Ms. Huawei was arrested, the reaction was disproportional? Why? Because she is not just the Chief Financial Officer for Huawei, she’s a government senior party member. Try naming a large Chinese tech company that doesn’t have a “party member” at the top of the leadership chain. Huawei. The company designed to take on the West’s juggernaut fleet. Huawei. The leader in a growing fleet of Battleships, all disguised as large corporations, out to continue the spirit of Capitalism………..competition.

            Yes, words are the weapon of the 21^st century. A weapon that needs a platform that reaches every inch of the world. At any given moment in time, almost a billion people are looking down onto a phone. The platform for that comes not from the US military or even the industrial complex of the West. The platform are the mega corporations that rule the internet. The ones that build it, run it and move most of the worlds commerce over it. When the writers of Blade Runner dreamed of mega corporations, they were closer than they thought to the truth of 2019. The issue is. One nation has weaponized that corporate concept in a brand new way. That nations new fleet of battleships have very common names and they don’t even look like war machines. Blade Runner. A movie that saw the future as very bleak. A future based on giant company headquarters, towering into the sky. The issue become, who do they work for, or for that matter, who ends up working for them. In 20 years. Do companies like Huawei and Amazon rule the world, or do they fight it out and the winner get’s the huge office? 2019…..it’s going to be interesting. Hey….what about Russia and the Middle East and India ….and South America? I’ll get there……Just give me a few days.