Thomas P.M. Barnett

ARTICLE: World of Warcraft: A Pandemic Lab?, By LAURA BLUE, Time, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2007

Cool example of what I was reaching for in my BFA "Headlines from the Future" blog-post Afterword, the one were a MMOG (massive multiplayer online game) is used to forecast--in a form of virtual deterrence--the likely outcome of a military intervention inside some rogue regime. The notion was that the game would so impress upon targeted dictator the untenability of his hold on power that he'd cut a golden parachute deal and obviate the entire kinetic phase--in effect, accepting the Development-in-a-Box‚Ñ¢-style leveraged buyout.

Thanks to Timothy Jiggens for sending this.

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