Russian official says civilian satellites may be military target

Obvious, chilling .... The clear future of warfare

Russian official says civilian satellites may be “legitimate” military target

Russia wasn't happy about Starlink providing broadband in Ukraine after invasion.

JON BRODKIN - 9/16/2022   ArsTechnica

A Russian diplomat said civilian satellites could be legitimate military targets in a statement that seems to refer to Starlink providing broadband access in Ukraine. Civilian satellites "may become a legitimate target for retaliation," the Russian official said in a statement to the United Nations' open-ended working group on reducing space threats.

The quote is from an unofficial English translation of the statement on September 12 by Konstantin Vorontsov, head of the Russian delegation to the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs (UNODA) working group. The translation is provided with other countries' statements from the session on the UNODA's meeting website.... '

Future Changing Childhood Survey

 Thought this was interesting, as we grow older.  How do the young think about technology? Other contexts of our lives?   How should e adapt a future web.  Or just let it evolve?   Future for marketing? Intro here, Click through for many samples of the survey

How Do Young People See the World Compared to the  Older Generations?  by our friend Irving Vladowsky-Berger

“There is an emerging narrative about a growing intergenerational divide worldwide,” said a recent international survey  conducted by The Changing Childhood Project.   “In the media and in popular culture, the young are often portrayed as impatient, militant, outspoken, and even entitled, in contrast to more sober temperaments among older people. The concept of intergenerational tension is not new. What may be new, however, is the speed with which our world is changing – and with it, childhood.”

The Changing Childhood Project is a collaboration between UNICEF, - the UN agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children around the world, - and Gallup, - the analytics company best known for its international opinion polls. Created to explore these intergenerational shifts, the project seeks to answer a few key questions: what is it like growing up today?; how do young people see the world differently?; and, is there an intergenerational gap?

To explore these and other questions, the project conducted phone interviews in the first half of 2021 with over 22,000 individuals in 21 countries representing diverse regional and income levels:   ..... ' 

UN: Global Computer Simulation Tool

Quite a considerable simulation is proposed.    Would be difficult to do, depending on the breadth and context involved.   Perhaps a realm where agent based modeling might be applied to simplify some aspects., which we aimed to do in regional models.  Various predictive models could be used to drive aspects of the model.  Investments are mentioned as drivers.  Legal system as constraints.   Risk could be included to understand aspects of events like pandemics.  But all this is still hard to do accurately.

UN: Computer Simulation Tool Could Boost Global Development
Technology Review in CACM
May 29, 2020

The United Nations is backing a new computer simulation tool that could help governments boost sustainable development and address global challenges. The Policy Priority Inference (PPI) software employs agent-based modeling to predict and simulate what would happen if policymakers invested in one project rather than another, informing the simulation with economics, behavioral science, and network theory. PPI allocates funding to "bureaucrats" who spend their apportioned money on different projects, then applies data about government budgets, the historical impact of spending on past policies, the effectiveness of a country's legal system, and estimated losses due to known inefficiencies. The software then suggests which policies are most worthy of investment. The goal is to help policymakers understand the wider ramifications of their decisions.  ... "