The Soviets had an ARPAnet style cybernetics project too, so the result in this time line would be a more cooperative world as well as many different competing cybernetics, space, nuclear & other tech programs all succeeding and flourishing
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The things I’d want to explore are a more unified world gov’t, cybernetics, space programs, energy, a geopolitical alliance spanning the USSR, China, India, warfare in space, no Neoliberal Reaction or rise of Neocons & Salafists & other things
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If I were a good enough writer with actual follow through it would have to span about 100 years to be really good
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Cause you know the aliens would have to invade, there’d be a denialist phase, all this politics, then there’d be a unity period, a long war, they losing but then turn the tide & then there’d be a post-war rebuilding period, all of which would be super cool to explore
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Inasmuch as it would contain ‘predictions’ they’re: the collapse of the Global North, the formation of a communist Eurasian bloc spanning Europe to India, richer & more unified Latin America & Africa, the decline of ethnicity & a giant race to colonize space in the aftermath
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lol sorry i’m nerding out I just wanted an excuse to talk about this world I’m building
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the dynamics of what alternative competing internets would look like is cool too—the US centralized protocol, the USSR I’m not sure bc theirs failed, the decentralized Cybersyn model etc
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Replying to @yungneocon @generativist
still relevant today if states collapse and alternatives emerge - it'll be difficult to implement central protocols across a decentralized patchwork
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My friend swears by this book:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220692114_Patterns_in_Network_Architecture_A_Return_to_Fundamentals …
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Distributed Algorithms: An Intuitive Approach is an excellent book for bootstrapping your imagination in this space.https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/distributed-algorithms …
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Replying to @yungneocon @mutual_ayyde
Not really network stack stuff, more like, "well, here are the limitations, and if we want to avoid crypto, what can we do with distributed algorithms."
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