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Thomas P.M. Barnett’s Global Throughlines

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By Thomas Barnett, Thomas Barnett
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I come to this subject with a bias—an old-school, familial slant. I come from a long line of lawyers: both grandfathers, both parents, elder male and female siblings, an uncle, a godfather (judge), and now my eldest son prosecuting for the Navajo Nation. In my family, law was never a bloodless abstraction. It was a profession, discipline, calling, belief that humanscan build rules sturdy enough to contain their instincts.
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Thomas P.M. Barnett’s Global Throughlines

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By Thomas Barnett, Thomas Barnett
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I know. I’ve been going with comic book-style artwork more and more. It’s the nostalgic in me. In my house growing up, we had a hassock that hid a treasure trove of comic books collected by my three older brothers and two older sisters. Whenever I ran out of things to do as a kid (that actually happened back then), I’d open that hassock and lose myself in all manner of tales.
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Thomas P.M. Barnett’s Global Throughlines

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By Thomas Barnett, Thomas Barnett
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I searched for this issue for years! Looking back from 2046, it is difficult to reconstruct just how strange the early AI years became. Not because the technology was trivial. It was anything but. It’s that we suddenly couldn’t figure out whether we were witnessing/confronting the rise of a tool, collaborator, competitor, accomplice, or the first mirror smart enough to scare us with its reflection.
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