None of this was a particularly hard prediction.
Right? Most of this stuff was already the case in 2012, so it barely even counts as a prediction.
China's lead in rare earth production doesn't exactly come out of nowhere, nor does Haiti having a crisis of some sort or terrorists being called freedom fighters. And having AI do the targeting work in place of humans has been floating around as an idea since what, when The Forbin Project came out? 1970 or so?
If you wanted to stretch it, WWII was supposed to start with mechanical computers that made missing with a bomb impossible (the way it is with electronic systems now).
Obviously that didn't happen. Basically, they were really expensive, single-purpose machines and didn't work so well actually in a moving, vibrating airplane.
BO2 released in 2012, and now we're here. If it's not particularly hard for you to predict the future, what will be the major military and geopolitical trends of the next 13 years Nostrachadmus?
Drone warfare will be the primary form of warfare (ie automation will continue to become more prevalent), Haiti will still be in crisis, China and the US will still be competing for military dominance, China will still have a disproportionate amount of rare earth metals (that one isn't even a trend really, just describing geography), and states will continue to call terrorists freedom fighters whenever their goals align.
So, basically, the same trends that have been ongoing since the cold war will continue to be trends, Nostrasmartass.
Nostradamus was famous for making predictions vague enough that they were guaranteed to come true, FYI.
As for the "predictions": Haiti facing a crisis is basically the history of Haiti, drones were already the future of warfare in 2012, China was already on the way to being the biggest producer of rare earth metals (along with a lot of things given all the outsourcing to China, plus there's the size, population, and geology), "AI" targetting systems (read: computer assisted targeting) was already in development, and I'm not sure what the terrorist thing is but terrorists being called freedom fighters happen all the time.
Nostrachadmus lmao
But we had a woman as President in Black Ops II so don't worry guys we're good
Can't wait for 2035 when joint Chinese and Russian forces (they've combined into one country or something) terrorize a Greek island with an earthquake machine, as detailed by Arma 3.
If I remember correctly, During development of Black Ops 2, Treyarch consulted with the US military or something on what “near-future” tech would be like.
I think that’s one of the reasons why I loved that game so much. It wasn’t way out there and hypothetical like Infinite Warfare was. But still grounded with realism.
It’s crazy how accurate they were!
Thank user vzq, yet I don't believe drone warfare was the trend at the end of the cold war nor was the US and China direct competitors in the way we see today. Come to think of it, wasn't the cold war about the US and a different country? I'm so historyless, lol.
>Nostrasmartass
Thanks! 😊
You didn't reply to them and you named the wrong user.
Well it's clear that the user stepped into the role of vzq, answering on their behalf. I'm just being polite.
