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Mapping Wild Cards

Inspired by: FP7 » Governmental Weather Control

version: 3 / updated: 2009-12-01
id: #514 / version id: #88
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Originally submitted by: Cornelia Daheim
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Source of inspiration

European Commission Framework Programme for RTD (FP7)

Theme/activity of inspiration

IDEAS: Interdisciplinary

Headline

(max. 9 words)

Governmental Weather Control

Description

(approx. 150 words)
Please describe the Wild Card (approx. 150 words)
New forecast and manipulation systems allow to control the weather. The weather planning system is used by governments to improve e.g. agriculture, but also misused: the era of "weather wars" between states arrives.

Keywords

forecast system, weather forecast, weather planning, weather war, weather control

Likelihood

Closest timeframe for at least 50% likelihood
Please use one of the following options:
now-2050

Features of life if the wild card manifests

Feature 3: consumers, markets and lifestyles
The commercial utilisation of methods to manipulate and control the weather, particularly on agriculture, might lead to an enormous decline of prices for fruits and vegetables, which had only been available in specific seasons and at a high price before.

Type of event

Unplanned consequence of events/trends/situations (e.g. financial crisis, accidental breakthrough)

Type of emergence

please select (if any) describe related trend or situation
An extreme extension of a trend/development/situation
(e.g. Increased global warming leads to a total ban on fossil fuels)

Type of systems affected

Both

Classification

Mixed

Importance

please specify:
please select
Level 4: important for the whole world