Fictional Intelligence (FicInt), SubT Quantum Team 1, Singapore

Abstract

Fictional Intelligence: The importance of storytelling, narrative, and verisimilitude in crafting tales of future possibilities that resonate and inform; and the significance of imagination. FicInt, also known as fictional intelligence or useful fiction, combines extensive research and futures forecasting with worldbuilding and narrative, one of the oldest forms of communication. The finished product involves an engaging and plausible storyline to introduce readers to novel trends and problems. Mad Scientist Laboratory is pleased to feature this post by the Radio Research Group, with their compelling story about the challenges a Special Operations team face in executing a SubTerranean (SubT) mission beneath Dense Urban Terrain in the future Operational Environment. Degraded situational awareness and comms, lethal autonomous weapons, psychotropic gas, and a transparent battlefield, all wrapped within Great Power Competition Aqsa and her SubT Quantum Team 1 embrace the suck, adapt, and overcome to execute their harrowing mission and exploit their target beneath the streets of Singapore. Read on!].

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 10, 2021
Accession Number
AD1155365

Entities

People

  • August Cole
  • P. W. Singer

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Army Training
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Autonomous Weapons
  • Breathing Apparatus
  • Computer Vision
  • Computers
  • Data Links
  • Earth Orbits
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Gas Masks
  • Grenades
  • Low Earth Orbits
  • Masks
  • Night Vision
  • Quantum Computers
  • Quantum Computing
  • Scientists
  • Software Defined Radio
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • Warfare
  • Weapons

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) Autonomous Capabilities and Mission Reconnaissance.

Technology Areas

  • Autonomy
  • Autonomy - UAVs
  • Quantum Computing