The Pentagon's Silicon Valley Problem / Andrew Cockburn

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🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Harper's Andrew Cockburn returns to This Is Hell! to talk about his March cover story, "The Pentagon’s Silicon Valley Problem: How Big Tech is losing the wars of the future." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Andrew's article here: https://harpers.org/archive/2024/03/the-pentagons-silicon-valley-problem-andrew-cockburn/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access weekly bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell

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0:00.0	You gotta have something if you want to be with me.
0:05.0	Oh, there.
0:07.0	Nothing from nothing.
0:08.0	There's nothing.
0:10.0	You gotta have something if you you're gonna be with me,
0:14.0	we need.
0:15.0	Have something.
0:16.0	Get there.
0:19.0	Get there. Thank you. This is hell.
0:37.0	the future. is hell. The future ain't what it used to be.
0:47.0	This is hell and that's a lesson from the great Suffic
0:51.0	Yogi named Bera that we keep learning and relearning again and again.
0:55.8	Promises of a better, brighter, more peaceful, equal, free and just world.
1:00.8	Keep falling short if not going completely unfulfilled.
1:04.3	For instance, there was a time when we were told that with the help of technology,
1:08.8	we would be able to conduct wars in a far more humane fashion.
1:13.0	Drones would replace live pilots,
1:15.0	taking them out of harm's way.
1:16.7	Precision weaponry would usher in a future
1:19.1	where only combatants would be targeted
1:21.5	and civilian deaths could be reduced, minimized, or even avoid it altogether.
1:26.0	Working with the geniuses in Silicon Valley, the Pentagon could devise surveillance systems that could accurately identify the enemy, maybe even create robotic ground troops,
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