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Feng wasn't really happy about WCG being that much totalitarian but accepted it as a "necessary evil" - until something better could replace it. Feng's and Pensatore's envisioned Biocracy and Gaia AI was going to be that kind of replacement. | Feng wasn't really happy about WCG being that much totalitarian but accepted it as a "necessary evil" - until something better could replace it. Feng's and Pensatore's envisioned Biocracy and Gaia AI was going to be that kind of replacement. | ||
=== | ===Global threats=== | ||
====Feng's scenarios==== | |||
* In addition to a multi-pandemic, single pandemics are itself a threat and a possible kickstarter for hypercrisis. | * In addition to a multi-pandemic, single pandemics are itself a threat and a possible kickstarter for hypercrisis. | ||
* Pandemics can also be triggered in insects. Extinction of bees have been discussed in other contexts. And while such an event would not drive humans into extinction it would still mean a severe problem. Also insects could be used as biological weapon. They could destroy specific flora: [https://www.darpa.mil/program/insect-allies DARPA]'s (potentially re-purposed) [https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/crop-protecting-insects-could-be-turned-bioweapons-critics-warn Insect Allies] was identified as such a threat. | * Pandemics can also be triggered in insects. Extinction of bees have been discussed in other contexts. And while such an event would not drive humans into extinction it would still mean a severe problem. Also insects could be used as biological weapon. They could destroy specific flora: [https://www.darpa.mil/program/insect-allies DARPA]'s (potentially re-purposed) [https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/crop-protecting-insects-could-be-turned-bioweapons-critics-warn Insect Allies] was identified as such a threat. | ||
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* Gammaray bursts | * Gammaray bursts | ||
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* 3D-printing technologies | |||
** 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 | |||
** [[wp:Telomere|telomere regeneration]], [[Bertram_Navarre#Reality_soon_outruns_fiction_.3F|cell conversion]] and [[wp:Organ_printing|bioprinting]] (biological immortality, overpopulation, potential destabilisation) | |||
*** 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. | |||
'''The Technology Crimes Task Force (TCTF) is meant to identify technological threats and contain them if possible. '''[[#Science_prison|TCTF science prisons]]''' secure "problematic" knowledge while also providing a save place for further research. Some scenarios ('''"[[wp:Great_Filter|great filters]]"''') simply require ongoing research of '''all possible technologies''' so that mankind's survival is ensured. | |||
====Hypercrisis==== | |||
A dangerous combination of scenarios was named "hypercrisis". The WCG is actively trying to prevent it with help of the TCTF. | A dangerous combination of scenarios was named "hypercrisis". The WCG is actively trying to prevent it with help of the TCTF. | ||
An increasing world population, global warming and AI research is increasing the pressure on societies while there is a latent yet de-facto global dept crisis. A real severe pandemic could be a kickstarter of a multi-crisis situation that means a breakdown of most systems. And then, (theoretically) advanced printing technology could make it easy for radical/misguided people to arm themselves and throw over government. | An increasing world population, global warming and AI research is increasing the pressure on societies while there is a latent yet de-facto global dept crisis. A real severe pandemic could be a kickstarter of a multi-crisis situation that means a breakdown of most systems. And then, (theoretically) advanced printing technology could make it easy for radical/misguided people to arm themselves and throw over government. | ||
====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 (but not last) to justify technology control. See [[Oni2:Caged_Birds#Green_Village|Green Village]]: the "holographic recording" | |||