From New Dawn 184 (Jan-Feb 2021) Staring up through the clear desert night sky at the wondrous Milky Way, Enrico Fermi asked aloud, “Where is everybody?” Creator of the world’s first nuclear reactor and lauded as the ‘architect of the […]
David Thrussell
The Golden Age of Social Engineering
From New Dawn 163 (Jul-Aug 2017) The totalitarian urge is not, historically speaking, a new thing. The eons are etched with the rise and fall of empires, despots and demagogues: numberless battles waged and endless conflicts have been fought for […]
The Coming Techno Apocalypse
From New Dawn 162 (May-June 2017) Imagine, if you will, a war in the near future. A war not fought between East and West. Not fought between nations, nor creeds nor races. A war fought brother to brother and sister […]
Mind Control in Australia
This article was published in New Dawn 153 (Nov-Dec 2015) Philosophers and pundits have long discussed the nature of ‘reality’ itself. For convenience and simplicity we might consider two parallel ‘realities’: one a ‘physical reality’ (the limitations of the body, […]
[Trapped] in The Net: What They Don’t Tell You About the Internet & Social Media
This article was published in New Dawn 158 (Sept-Oct 2016) “Technological progress is carrying us to inevitable disaster.”– Theodore J. Kaczynski (a.k.a. ‘The Unabomber’) Flawed, to a depth unlike any other beast in the animal kingdom, human beings rapaciously despoil […]