5GW Theory Timeline

Although not specifically referencing 5GW within the main body of the blog post, Mark Safranski outlines various concepts of “The Super Empowered Individual” while examining both the potential effects of the existence of SEIs and potential countermeasures or strategies for defending against SEIs.  In an update to the blog post, Safranksi links various related discussions elsewhere, including discussions about 5GW; additionally, the comments section to this blog post includes discussion of 5GW as it relates to the issue of super-empowered individuals.

Excerpt:

A super empowered individual, in my view, is autonomously capable of creating a cascading event that grand strategist Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett has termed a “system perturbation”; a disruption of system function and invalidation of existing rule sets to at least the national but more likely the global scale. The key requirements to become “superempowered” are comprehension of a complex system’s connectivity and operation; access to critical network hubs; possession of a force that can be leveraged against the structure of the system and a willingness to use it.

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