Редактирование: Christopher Altman (раздел)

==   Pentagon Field Operations for Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Aid ==
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At Black Rock City, National Defense University and The Pentagon, Altman provided operational support<ref>[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99KWApna6GoLUhfOERsSlNlYkE/view Memorandum for the Record]: Lessons learned from Black Rock City. Wells, II, Linton. (11-09-07) Accessed 2018-03-01.</ref><ref>[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99KWApna6GoSGlzUkZBYnBTWUE/view SSF Information Sharing in Afghanistan: A Model for USG, IC, Military]. Research and Analysis Project: UNCLASSIFIED Information Sharing in Afghanistan: A Model for U.S. Military and Coalition Commanders, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and U.S. Homeland Security. Prepared for The Center for Technology and National Security Policy (CTNSP) at the National Defense University (NDU) on behalf of the Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance Task Force (ISR TF). Contract# SP4705-10-C-005 (2011-01-28).</ref> to STAR TIDES<ref>[http://star-tides.net/ STAR TIDES: Sharing To Accelerate Research - Transformative Innovation for Development and Emergency Support]. Wells, II, Linton. (11-09-07) Accessed 2018-03-01.</ref> and Synergy Strike Force—the former, a US interagency working group composed of US Department of Defense and intelligence community leaders including linguists, special forces operatives and technical experts; the latter, a group of analogue volunteers with the same skill set.<ref>[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99KWApna6GoYkRDbXZ2ZjVhN00/view SSF Unclassified Information Afghanistan]. (Accessed 2018-03-01).</ref><ref>[https://www.wired.com/2012/05/jlink/ Cash, and Time, Runs Out for Afghanistan's Wi-Fi City]. WIRED (Accessed 2018-01-17).</ref>

Operating under mandate of DoD Directive 30.005<ref>[https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99KWApna6GockhOUjhtVmhUS3M/view SSF Special Operations]. Dave Warner MD/PhD (Accessed 2018-01-01).</ref> the group conducts field tests of next-generation humanitarian aid and disaster relief technologies for stressed populations in austere environments around the world. Technologies incorporated include extensive geospatial mapping by satellite, aircraft, aerostat and remote camera; solar panels, recyclable water; solar-powered, self-organizing, fault-tolerant mesh configuration dynamic micro-grid cellular networks; voice over internet protocol (VOIP) phones, text-based reporting and 3G cellular apps, social network development among disparate camps, renewable energy resources; resilient power, water, and communications.<ref>[http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/the-merry-pranksters-who-hacked-the-afghan-war-60873 The Merry Pranksters Who Hacked the Afghan War]. PSMag. Calvert, Brian. 2013-07-01. Pacific Standard. (Accessed 2018-01-16).</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/?id=mJssDgAAQBAJ&pg=PA356&dq=%22Todd+Huffman%22+photos+OR+computers+OR+afghanistan+OR+beards#v=onepage&q=%22Todd%20Huffman%22%20&f=false The Imagineers of War: The Untold History of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency that Changed the World]. Weinberger, Sharon (2017). Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN=9780385351799</ref><ref>[http://phibetaiota.net/2013/05/dr-dr-dave-warner-in-afghanistan-unable-to-get-funding-for-open-networks-for-peace-across-the-country-say-what/ Dr. Dr. Dave Warner in Afghanistan — Unable to Get Funding for Open Networks for Peace Across the Country — Say What?]. Public Intelligence (2013-05-31).</ref>

===  Next-generation government leadership in a post-scarcity economy ===
A recurring theme of interest has been the role of next-generation government leadership in a post-scarcity economy and the capacity for governance to adapt and evolve to meet the novel features of this new environment.<ref name=":21">[http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a510097.pdf Leadership in the Era of the Human Singularity—New Demands, New Skills, New Response]. Kunstler, Barton. Department of Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC.mil). Office of the Director of National Intelligence. US Army War College for Strategic Leadership. The Proteus Monograph Series, Volume 2, Issue 4 (2008-10-01).</ref> Black Rock City provides the sole large-scale experimental test-bed on the planet for this question for two weeks per year—transforming from empty desert into analogue posthuman, post-scarcity society.<ref name=":23">[http://superconducting.blogspot.com/2012/09/synergy-strike-force.html Synergy Strike Force: Pentagon Field Operations for Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Aid]. The Next Generation of Government Leadership in a Post-Scarcity Economy. Altman, Christopher. Cohærence * and Quantum Technology (2012-09-24).</ref>:<blockquote style="border-left: 5px solid #ccc;" data-ve-attributes="{&quot;style&quot;:&quot;border-left: 5px solid #ccc;&quot;}">The collective of Black Rock City itself serves as a large-scale technology, behavioral psychology and social network test bed, providing the world’s only experimental incubator for the study of a post-scarcity economy, a subject of intense scrutiny to government leadership and intelligence organizations around the world who would seek to justify their continued existence through the wake of the transitions enabled by this technological convergence—as concurrent advances such as those in nanotechnology and three-dimensional printing make such antiquities of currency and corporations wholly obsolete. <br><br>Why go to the store to buy a computer, electronics, or pharmaceutical drugs when the open-source plans to manufacture and print them at the molecular scale with a nanoscale three-dimensional printer are widely available on the Internet? Witness the contemporary impact to the music and movie industries. In the 1990's major industry associations such as the RIAA and MPAA were embroiled in a losing power struggle to counter an existential threat to their foundations and their very existence—the threat of rampant music and Hollywood film piracy—enabled by widespread internet use and the advent of file sharing technologies. The spread of mature nanoscale manufacturing capabilities presents the same kind of existential threat to any producer of material goods—and by proxy, to the governments regulating that market. </blockquote>