"Sci-fi writers on mission to imagine unimaginable; Novelists pitch in to aid US security" by David Montgomery, Washington Post | May 23, 2009
WASHINGTON - The line between what's real and what's not is thin and shifting, and the Department of Homeland Security has decided to explore both sides. Boldly going where few government bureaucracies have gone before, the agency is enlisting the expertise of science fiction writers.
Crazy? This week the 2009 Homeland Security Science & Technology Stakeholders Conference, with contractors hustling business around every corner, has felt at times more like a convention of futuristic yarn-spinners.
STAKEHOLDER? Who is a STAKEHOLDER in FASCISM, folks?
Onstage in the darkened amphitheater, a Washington police commander said he would like to have Mr. Spock's instant access to information. A federal research director fantasized about a cellphone that could simultaneously text and detect biochemical attacks. Multiple cellphones in a crowd would confirm and track the spread. The master of ceremonies for the week was Greg Bear, the sci-fi novelist whose book "Quantico" featured FBI agents battling a designer plague targeting specific ethnic groups.
That's not science fiction:
"Israel is reportedly developing a biological weapon that would harm Arabs while leaving Jews unaffected, according to a report in London's Sunday Times.
The report, citing Israeli military and western intelligence sources, says that scientists are trying to identify distinctive genes carried by Arabs to create a genetically modified bacterium or virus."
"The "ethno-bomb" program is based at Israel's Nes Tziyona research facility. Scientists are trying to use viruses and bacteria to alter DNA inside living cells and attack only those cells bearing Arabic genes.
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I think what you will find is IF THEY HAVE THOUGHT of it and it is IN the MOVIES, it ALREADY EXISTS, folks! FACT is STRANGER than "FICTION!"
Science fiction writers tend to know a lot about science. And the ranks of federal and commercial research and development departments are stuffed with sci-fi fanatics. The cost to taxpayers is minimal. The writers call this "science fiction in the national interest," and they consult pro bono. They have been exploring the future, and "we owe it to mankind to come back and report what we've found," said writer Arlan Andrews, an engineer with the Navy in Corpus Christi, Texas.
Andrews founded an organization of sci-fi writers to offer imaginative services in return for travel expenses only. Called Sigma, the group has about 40 writers. Over the years, members have addressed meetings organized by the Department of Energy, the Army, Air Force, NATO, and other agencies they care not to name.
Like CIA and MOSSAD, perhaps?
At first, Andrews recruited only sci-fi writers who had conventional science or engineering chops on their resumes. Now about a third of the writers have doctorates. The communities converged again Wednesday evening when the scene shifted from the conference hall to Reiter's Books, where the writers signed books and led discussions.
Harry McDavid, chief information officer for Homeland Security's Office of Operations Coordination & Planning, had a question for Catherine Asaro, author of two dozen novels, about half of them devoted to her Saga of the Skolian Empire. She also has a doctorate in physics. McDavid's job involves "information sharing" - efficiently communicating information about response and recovery across agencies, states, business sectors. How, he wanted to know, did Asaro come up with the Triad system in her novels of flashing thoughts across the universe?
"It evolved along with the story," Asaro said. Basically, she applied principles of quantum theory - one of her specialties as a physicist - to a fictional theory of "thought space."
What, now we are going to have psychics discovering "terrorist" plots?
Good! They can BLOW the WHISTLE on those FALSE FLAG ACTIONS!
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