
The Digital Tower of Babel
Spend enough time in Pentagon briefing rooms, and you learn to recognize a certain look - the confidence of those who believe they have finally solved the unsolvable. I saw it when weapons contractors unveiled weapons systems that would end conventional warfare. I saw it during the early networked-warfare years, when theorists spoke of "full-spectrum dominance" as though geography and human nature had been permanently overcome. I am seeing it again now, and the stakes are higher.









