FUTURE WARFARE [CIRCA 2025] According To A Chief NASA Scientist

I found this power point presentation by a NASA chief scientist on future warfare focused on technology trends in IT/Bio/Nano with a focus on the projected landscape of 2025. It’s unclear when it was made, but one website puts the publication date as 2011. There’s what looks like a month/year date format on one of the slides that indicates 2001.

One of the authors, Dennis Bushnell, is an out of the box thinker that caught my attention initially for other reasons. Because of this it’s not clear if this more his personal work or official work for NASA, but it does have the NASA logo on it. It’s 113 slides so I won’t go over them all. I’ve singled out the ones I find interesting.

It opens up by stating our ability to create wealth is bounded only by our ability to come up with new ideas and that the causes of war are politics, religion, megalomania, and territorial disputes.

Before diving into the weaponization of technology it pitches the use of web based…