His economic and social policies were informed by dystopian sci-fi
Much like MAGA is doing it today. The more things change the more they stay the same or something.
Even worse, Trump is informed by social media influencers and sycophants, some of the dumbest mother fuckers in our society.
Last Week Tonight did a good piece on it recently: https://youtu.be/p7ZG_xWYLzI?si=FS0ohM4etZkC7xDd
WarGames pretty much defined what hacking was until the late 90s. Any business and organization that didn’t change policy because of WarGames was going to feel pain.
Ronald Reagan?! The actor?!?
Then who’s vice-president, Jerry Lewis?
With dementia?
Yeah, speculative fiction causes people to speculate. That’s what it’s for.
Are they saying that the president that named the Strategic Defense Initiative as “Star Wars” was deeply influenced by sci fi?
Both Reagan and the orange pedophile are severely demented.
Spies Like Us skewers this quite well.
Also - real genius - crossbow (the program name for the laser system) has SDI and CIA vibes everywhere.
You should check out him and his wife and their psychic.
Yep. He even requested recommendations from SciFi authors of the time who were part of the Citizens’ Advisory Council on National Space Policy.
Reagan’s search for space-based options to enhance America’s military had context prompted the Citizens’ Advisory Council on National Space Policy to convene at [Larry] Niven’s house. [Jerry] Pournelle chaired the meeting, and the result of a three-day weekend was an ominously titled document: “Space: The Crucial Frontier.”
Pournelle’s preamble for the policy, published in 1981, calls space “our most valuable natural resource” and a place that opens up “significant and possibly decisive military and economic advantages.”
“We worked all weekend and produced a paper for the transition team, then at the president’s request we started in on a plan for after inauguration at another meeting,” Pournelle wrote on his blog. “The president read the full reports, which strongly recommended Strategic Defense. In 1983 he made his Star Wars speech. It included several phrases from the Council reports.”
