Becoming K1

It seems likely that humankind does not survive World War 3

It also seems likely that, with war in Ukraine and Russia, Iran and America, Israel and Gaza and more

that we have been in WW3 already for some years.

In this episode of the Science Fiction podcast recorded in the early days of Russia’s war against Ukraine, I think about the science fiction history of our final war.

Many idiotic errors lead to war. But as a global civilisation our error might be analysed by some future AI looking, over the glowing ruins of our cities, as this…

…we did not grasp the challenge of becoming a K1 civilisation.

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Published by Damien Walter

Writer and storyteller. Contributor to The Guardian, Independent, BBC, Wired, Buzzfeed and Aeon magazine. Special forces librarian (retired). Teaches the Rhetoric of Story to over 35,000 students worldwide.

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