The Homeland Security Department, in an effort to avoid the next terrorist attack is also including sci-fi writers. They are thinking of tapping their wild imaginations to know about the next move of the terrorists. A handful of writers were also brought to Washington by the government to attend a Homeland Security conference on science and technology.
The writers will be a part of a group called Sigma. However, they have not been given too much reference in the past as last time the group gathered in late 1990s to discuss what a post-nuclear age will be like. Now they have been invited to help the government in combating terrorism. However, people argue that their ideas will include a lot of imagination, but there is no doubt that the idea won’t work.
The group’s motto says, “Science Fiction in the National Interest.” A single technical doctorate degree is the minimum criterion of selection in the group. The 9/11 Commission said that the 2001 terrorist attacks was a result of the “failure of imagination’ on the government’s part. And so, for this group nothing can be unthinkable.
Source: USAToday
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lol! The Gov is as smart as the word ’HomeLand Security’ fear of ’ikhraj e madar e watan! [someone running away with his land ]
i think his country will be taken and he will get enslaved” but in fiction his high school teacher mustve said it.. A Couple of bland Latin American Presidents a Bank a Commando turned dignitaryu who could just peep into Camp David!
What da we wahn dis Independance now ,since ya’ve given away the sherrif’s honest talk to NAFTA NAFDEC and likewise..Ya want yer evil to prevail and yer peace to prevail and yer boys may die and yer music must fade then!
yea! yea mutbe rolled a hard grainball somewhere!
No more Country ? ya mustve lost yer balls !Craaazyyyy!
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