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* Robots, androids (or specifically SLD) could be a target for hackers and turn them against their "hosts". | * Robots, androids (or specifically SLD) could be a target for hackers and turn them against their "hosts". | ||
* Amok-running AIs are mostly fiction but a rest risk remains and grows the more the technology matures. A "true global community" could limit such risk - for a while. | * Amok-running AIs are mostly fiction but a rest risk remains and grows the more the technology matures. A "true global community" could limit such risk - for a while. | ||
* Self-consuming capitalism: AI and robots | * Self-consuming capitalism: AI and robots let many people lose their job due to effects of competition and rationalization. Therefor these technologies are restricted until the political discussion has been ended. An unlimited use could eventually destabilize all WCG markets and hence the whole political and social system. | ||
* [[wp:Geomagnetic_reversal#Effects_on_biosphere|Geomagtetic reversals]] could damage electronics in satellites and anything at the surface and cause health problems for flora and fauna. It could also cause | * [[wp:Geomagnetic_reversal#Effects_on_biosphere|Geomagtetic reversals]] could damage electronics in satellites and anything at the surface and cause health problems for flora and fauna. It could also cause volcanism. Due to globalization the accumulated effects would put massive stress on markets and societies. | ||
* Super- | * Super-volcanos | ||
* Gammaray bursts | * Gammaray bursts | ||
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** weapon production (up to such a degree it get a system destabilizer) | ** weapon production (up to such a degree it get a system destabilizer) | ||
*** weapons require social condemnation so that 3D-printing can safely increase the living standards of all humans | *** weapons require social condemnation so that 3D-printing can safely increase the living standards of all humans | ||
** [[wp:Telomere|telomere regeneration]], [[Bertram_Navarre#Reality_soon_outruns_fiction_.3F|cell conversion]] and [[wp:Organ_printing|bioprinting]] (biological immortality, overpopulation, potential | ** [[wp:Telomere|telomere regeneration]], [[Bertram_Navarre#Reality_soon_outruns_fiction_.3F|cell conversion]] and [[wp:Organ_printing|bioprinting]] (biological immortality, overpopulation, potential destabilization) | ||
*** True reason why biological immortality is not intended: it is simply difficult to maintain because very cost-intensive. | *** True reason why biological immortality is not intended: it is simply difficult to maintain because very cost-intensive. | ||
*** Conspiracy theory, [[Manual#TECH_NOTE_1|Hanna]]: The World Coalition Government realizes the extent of the ecological damage and has the ability to reverse a lot of it but has decided not to. It is in their best interest to maintain the centralization of wealth so the large population centers are preserved while "third world" regions are not. As a bonus the mounting death toll solves some of their overpopulation problems. | *** Conspiracy theory, [[Manual#TECH_NOTE_1|Hanna]]: The World Coalition Government realizes the extent of the ecological damage and has the ability to reverse a lot of it but has decided not to. It is in their best interest to maintain the centralization of wealth so the large population centers are preserved while "third world" regions are not. As a bonus the mounting death toll solves some of their overpopulation problems. | ||
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====Wake-up call==== | ====Wake-up call==== | ||
Feng's wake-up call to the WCG is also known as the multi-pandemics-scenario which states that a single man can trigger dooms day relatively easy. Next to a hypercrisis it WCG's strongest point | Feng's wake-up call to the WCG is also known as the multi-pandemics-scenario which states that a single man can trigger dooms day relatively easy. Next to a hypercrisis it is WCG's strongest point but not last to justify technology control. See [[Oni2:Caged_Birds#Green_Village|Green Village]]: the "holographic recording" | ||
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===Tianxia=== | ===Tianxia=== | ||
(WIP, talks are to be moved.) | |||
Pensatore challenged Feng's therefor China's philosophy. | Pensatore challenged Feng's therefor China's philosophy. | ||