INGERSOLL: Big Announcements In Big Tech Barely Break Through. I Wonder Why?

US First Lady Melania Trump walks with a humanoid robot as she arrives for the Fostering the Future Together Global Coalition Summit in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, on March 25, 2026. (Photo by Oliver Contreras / AFP via Getty Images)

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Greetings, Dear Reader,

Welcome to the Brave New World. Imagine Frank Herbert’s Dune, before the Butlerian Jihad, Orwell, if he had imagined Big Brother as a commodity sold on the open market into eager hands, Huxley, if the pre-amble to Soma was wall-to-wall Pharma ads on cable, and then if William Gibson’s Neuromancer corrupted Ready Player One in its teenage years.

Let’s get dark this Friday morning, shall we?

BRAVE NEW … WHATEVER THE HELL THIS IS

Drones of unknown origin essentially shut down one part of America’s nuclear triad recently and it’s registered barely a blip on national news.

Shockingly, in the age of technology 2026, we have no idea whose they are or where they originate. They simply appeared. They are immune to the same tech we used to render China’s military tech inert in not one but two recent military offensives in Venezuela and Iran.

They probably aren’t Chinese. They also probably are not Ukrainian or Russian.

“This should be the biggest story in the country right now,” writes Ari Schulman, editor at New Atlantis. Schulman is a PhD in nerdology and his magazine is the watercooler where nerds gather for niche tech topics. In other words, he would know.

Unlike the drones over NJ, there is no UFO hysteria to boost this story into national consciousness. The national media hasn’t really made a thing out of it, for whatever reason, but it’s nevertheless yet another development in the age of........

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