Thoughts on AI, nuclear weapons, and forever wars… by Chris Mott Reprinted from The Realist Review: When it comes to fictional depictions of a post-nuclear future, Nevil Shute’s 1957 classic novel On the Beach arguably popularized the trend. The story showed the extinction of the human race from a globally omnipresent and ever spreading radiation. In later years, the made-for-television movies Threads and The Day After shocked Cold War audiences in the 1980s by depicting the nightmare of a post-apocalyptic future in which most people were not in fact killed quickly but rather lingered on in great suffering ; a future which sounds less bleak but was in fact more … Continue reading Is the ‘Forever Winter’ Our Future?