Sci-fi writers will become the visionaries for French army (Image via: Grist.org)

Sci-Fi Writers United in Red Team to Help French Army

Kirana Chandra Mumpuni Budiana
Business & Industry
Sci-Tech
Jul 20, 2019
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The newest report just came from Defence Innovation Agency (DIA). The country’s agency revealed that they’re creating a team of sci-fi writers as the support for french army. Around four or five sci-fi writers will be united in a group called “Red Team”. The sci-fi writers are going to work in highly-confidential manner to enhance the military defence strategy.

According to the deputy director of France's Foundation for Strategic Research, Bruno Tertrais, the role of red team is to think the creative way about military defence strategy. They will do it by making hypotheses of how the terrorist organizations and foreign states could use advanced technology. The sci-fi writers are going to do what they do best, which is to create role play around the possible problems. They will also use other techniques to foresee any military challenge. Those writers are the visionaries that expected to think outside the box compared to other traditional military elements.

France determines to have what it takes to be the advance country in military innovation, as told by French Defence Minister Florence Parly. It can be seen from their last Bastille Day military celebration. In Paris, one of the technology inventors piloted his jet-powered flyboard over crowds. That inventor was Franky Zapata. The attraction made President Emmanuel Macron tweeted about his proudness of the military innovation. The Bastille Day military celebration also showed Nerod F5 microwave jammer. It meant to be a weapon designed to block the pilot's signals in targeting drones.

The unorthodox move by France in revolution of its military defence strategy is not a non-sense. The sci-fi novels and films already predicted some today inventions. For example, a 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne talked about moon landing. In 104 years later, it actually happened with astronauts sent to the moon by spaceship from Florida, U.S. on Apollo 11 mission. Not only that, Jonathan Swift in Gulliver's Travels, predicted that Mars had two moons. Then in 1914 novel The World Set Free, H.G. Wells predicted the atomic bomb. The future of U.S. and its mass surveillance also predicted in the book 1984 by George Orwell. Film also made a prediction of video phone through the 1927 film Metropolis.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49044892

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