What 'Back to the Future' Teaches About the Future of War



Franz-Stefan Gady, The Diplomat
The time travel adventures of Dr. Emmett Brown and Marty McFly in a DeLorean time machine are useful in predicting a limiting feature of the future of war. Although it is widely viewed that technology determinism will regulate future hostilities, the modern penchant for scientific reduction fuels the beliefif not the hope that future wars will be driven if not dominated by new technologies. In its time shuffling thaumaturgy, the Back to the Future trilogy offers a counter-narrative to this somewhat misguided assumption.The character arc of Doc Brown in the trilogy is his gradual... Read More