Laser weapons, advanced drone warfare, and nation states around the globe redefined by climate change: this is the world in
2084, envisioned by authors Jim Stavridis and Elliot Ackerman.
Both are veterans -- Ackerman, a former Marine, did five tours in Iraq and Afghanistan; Stavridis is a retired four-star admiral and a former supreme allied commander of NATO. Their novel
2084 is the third in a trilogy. They compare their work to cold war fiction like
Dr. Strangelove -- stories that imagined disasters specifically so society would work to avoid them. In this episode, they unpack what dangers they see on the distant horizon.
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