… Exploring the Operational Environment
[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory is pleased to publish today’s post by returning guest blogger Mr. Ian Sullivan, addressing the paramount disruptor — people and ideas. While emergent technologies facilitate the possibility of change, the catalyst, or change agent, remains the … Read the rest
“By 2038, there won’t just be one internet — there will be many, split along national lines” — An Xiao Mina, 2038 podcast, Episode 2, New York Magazine Intelligencer, 25 October 2018.
[Editor’s Note: While the prediction above is drawn from a … Read the rest
[Editor’s Note: The U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) G-2’s Mad Scientist Initiative tracks a number of emergent disruptive technologies that have the potential to impact the Future Operational Environment. We have already seen a number of these … Read the rest
[Editor’s Note: As observed by Mr. Ian Sullivan in his Lessons Learned in Assessing the Operational Environment post earlier this year:
“The rapid innovation, development, and fielding of new technologies promises to radically enhance our abilities to live, … Read the rest
[Editor’s Note: Mad Scientist Laboratory is pleased to review proclaimed Mad Scientist Dr. Alexander Kott’s paper, Ground Warfare in 2050: How It Might Look, published by the US Army Research Laboratory in August 2018. This paper offers … Read the rest