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Secret Intelligence Service
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NEW MIND WAR
THE FUTURE STATE PROJECT
Information Operations
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The Future State. 2018 – 2030
This is to introduce the Sheffield Case Study
Asymmetric, Information Operation
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OBJECTIVE
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Toward the Future State – Transformational Change
This is to engage the Unit until 2030
We have to understand and accept it; that whoever dominates the full – smart- technologies, will also dominate the world. This is why there are so many countries investing massive capital to develop smart technology.
Smart technology is not a single and unilateral technology. It is a highly complex, comprehensive and complementary combination with mixed industrial sectors covering; computing, IT, academic and human intellectuals. In one phrase, smart technology is ‘a universal all-can tool’ to conduct whatever the people want it to do.
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One objective is to engage a very high impact manner of presentation, displaying the grass roots quality of life in the present time and central to this, the massive infrastructure development both enriching and supporting not only the northern region, but the United Kingdom as a whole.
That said, we expect to move through the cycle many times so to map the systemic changes and the complexity which, each time, becomes more intense.
Methodology : Future State Project
One evolving example for Sheffield (though not confined to the city) is the plan for Aerotropolis, the new airport city, and which is set to create a staggering 73.000 new jobs. Another, the Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre – Factory 2050, which is the U.K’s flagship of research and innovation in cutting edge manufacturing, the redevelopments already in progress for the city centre, and the new Meadowhall shopping complex. Not to forget the ideal health care model (free to all citizens) and equally, a world class education system, and with connectivity via a futuristic transport infrastructure (to include HS2 high speed rail, at a cost of 120 Billion uk pounds – set to create 200.000 jobs) .
Though the future state is envisaged, it is not a static condition, nor as stated, is it simple. Neither is there an end point, but this briefly is what the future state means :
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A reappraisal of our values, our social relationships – what it means to be a citizen; our lifestyles, and interests, as individuals, as a society and a state
The content and form of our education and understanding. The way we acquire it.
The emergence of novel types of work and the relationship with / accompaniment of highly intelligent machines
Modes of travel within and between smart cities
The new environment; recreation and entertainment
The food we eat and how it is produced
The quality of the air we breath
New, clean and efficient sources of energy
How we purchase things and what we purchase
The applications of cognitive neuroscience and AI in the public domain – humanoids
The implications for law and order, defence / military and intelligence
The means of protecting the universally valid, most important economic, political, national and other public relations, their inviolability – the ideological, social, psychological, legal framework
Our colleagues and friends across the world; the new ways we will share while evolving in tandem with them
Beyond our current domicile, the utilisation and occupation of space
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The City is a part of an interconnected system that includes the nearby metropolis of Manchester, as well as that of Leeds, Liverpool, Birmingham, to name a few – constitutive of the Northern Powerhouse. It cannot stop at that, because the future state is the whole of the United Kingdom, a nation that is part of a global, interconnected community.
Though this is primarily about the United Kingdom, the pace of innovation and change is of course a worldwide phenomena and running parallel. If one looks at the United States for example, the same is happening in part there and will continue so to do, likewise across the EU, in China and Russia.
Life here, as explained, is becoming very futuristic in altogether novel and equally complex ways and these ways are to become very much more apparent as the future vision becomes the new reality, the globally interconnected / shared reality. This is why we are involved with it.
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We are not a commercial organisation
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(C-V) Admin. Liaison Officer
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Aims and Objectives of the New Mind War
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The Owl is in Harrogate. Covert Hybrid War
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The New Mind War
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Addendum I
Secret Intelligence Service
(C-I) Unit.
Seminar. 28 02 2019
Harrogate
Use of Photography to Encourage Ownerhip of Particular Meanings – Panorama Project
Re: To discuss using photographs because of their non-benign quality. Basically asking the viewer (target audience) the question, though the viewer is not aware in the conventional sense of being prompted as such; if you could go into this picture, what would you say and what would you do? The choice of photograph, the content, dictates, within a narrow parameter how the viewer responds, ie. What would be said and what would be done.
So, we are encouraging the viewer to delve deeper into a subjective interpretation of the image via an invitation to immerse into it. This is the kind of question that encourages fantasy, daydreaming, and the ability to step out of this reality and into different one – ours. People do obviously vary in how extensively they can respond to this question, or even if at all. It would appear we are offering people their first opportunity to take control over the image, if they so desire – and to manifest how active or passive they see themselves in it and so on.
Note in this, what our objective is.
Secret Intelligence Service
(C-I) Unit.
Seminar. 28 02 2019
Harrogate
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Addendum II
Secret Intelligence Service
(C-I) Unit. London
17 03 2019
Regarding the Future State Project – Extract from a discussion – Unit Principal Officer. C-I SIS :
“AND you must feel CONFIDENT in the assurance of the Future State Project – that if geographically confined to the Northern Powerhouse alone, constitutes the largest and fastest movement of knowledge and its application in the history of the world. So think about that and what we are charged with here – who chose us for this task. Yes, there are major developments taking place in other countries, such as; Australia and China – but the Northern Powerhouse is an all-encompassing transformational change – taking absolutely everything there is into consideration. The geographical area, though systemically not confined, does surpass the size of any US state and many countries too. The future cities (smart, data-integrated, green cities); Sheffield, Manchester, Leeds, Hull, Birmingham, constitute a collossal generation of wealth and together surpass anywhere on the planet when combined as one. This will increase incrementally. When you consider the Future State Project as unconfined to the north and begin (which we have to) on the transformation as being nation-wide, then we are really into it, quite literally. Think about this while doing mundane things and how those things are quickly becoming much less because this remit must be all of our time 24/7, in ways that we are yet to learn about and experience. Including the surprises, the unforeseen inputs and so on, along the way. We should discuss the issue of how this makes us feel; the massive responsibility, absolute committment and no less than daunting challenge, which is a simple way of describing it. A jolly splendid, team-effort, yes!”
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Secret Intelligence Service
(C-I) Unit. London
17 03 2019
Regarding the Future State Project – Extract from a discussion – Unit Principal Officer. C-I SIS :
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Addendum III
Secret Intelligence Service
(C-I). Unit.
Seminar. Harrogate.
24 03 2019
Topic : Transformational change – Future State Project
We should discuss the question; in the context of the project, what does being visionary mean? We should narrow it down. I have; Inspiration > Imagination > Innovation. We are engaging many issues and the one that I think is central is; what is it that compels to imagine what does not exist. A state of mind? When circumstance – moving with the flow, effectively dictates how one thinks and acts, then the compulsion to disengage appears an awkward psychological condition to define in this respect. Disengaging from how others define circumstance requires an understanding of what these definitions are and what they are intended to achieve, thereby disengaging from them in order to circumvent and tender the wholly new suggests not only nonconformity but a whole host of affectual responses. Inability to deal with the taken for granted, inability to deal with the Inadequate – when most don’t cognise it as such, inability to deal with limitation, inability to deal with social forces that are perceived by most to be out of ones control, and so on.
Secret Intelligence Service
(C-I). Unit. Seminar Harrogate.
24 03 2019
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Addendum IV
Secret Intelligence Service
(C-I) Seminar. 06 04 2019
Harrogate.
To discuss the Future State Project and Systems Thinking
Do design thinkers face particular challenges when seeking to intervene to improve value and outcomes in complex adaptive ecosystems such as cities, health and social care, education, energy, food production and distribution, the built and natural environment and development?
Well, in such systems, the root causes of problems and the origins of poor outcomes are often hard to identify and difficult to address due to their nested, interconnected and dynamic nature, as well as the fact that they consist of a diversity of humans, technologies and resources whose actions and effects are not wholly predictable.
When making interventions in complex adaptive systems, it is necessary to identify, engage with and satisfy the needs of multiple stakeholders. A designer seeking to create new value must understand how complex systems adapt and evolve in response to the direct and indirect interactions of all stakeholders, the different goals they have, the diversity of resources they can access and use, the outcomes they prioritise and often, the widely different (and sometimes in conflict) values they possess.
Learning about a problem from only one or two stakeholder groups risks leaving important gaps in understanding, leading to the design of partial interventions and piecemeal solutions based on incomplete evidence. Rather like the parable of the learned blind men touching an elephant, focusing on just one part of a complex system problem only ever produces limited insight (especially if you are at the tail end). Such a narrow perspective is one of the main reasons why technologies and solutions fail to become adopted, or do not achieve the hoped-for scale of implementation.
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Addendum V
Secret Intelligence Service
(C-I) Unit. Seminar. 27 04 2019
Harrogate
Topic : Our understanding of the nature of human – system interactions from the perspective of the theory of complex adaptive systems, including the essence of complexity, emergent properties of system behaviour and deterministic chaos.
Notes :
Human performance, more often than not, constitutes complex adaptive phenomena with emergent properties that exhibit chaotic behaviours.
With regard to what we are doing with the FUTURE STATE PROJECT therefore, we should explore the design and management of organisational / work systems in their entirety – including applications of the concepts of nonlinear dynamics to the study of human physical performance.
So to examine the effectiveness of human-centered design efforts of what is a no less than immense system of systems taking place, we should understand the applications and concepts – the theory of complex adaptive and dynamical systems.
Performance of many contemporary work systems and environments may be sensitive to the initial conditions and may exhibit chaotic system behaviours. Human-centered design of emergent human–system interactions requires application of the theories of nonlinear dynamics and complex adaptive systems.
The success of future human–systems integration efforts requires the fusion of : paradigms, knowledge, design principles, and methodologies of human factors and ergonomics with those of the science of complex adaptive systems as well as modern systems engineering.
Cybernetics.
Human activity systems
Future State Project
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