Midnight inbox7/6/2023 I guess they could announce it next year and release it a few months later but while that may work with some games, I don’t think it’s a good idea for a whole console. Obviously, predicting Nintendo is madness but if they don’t announce it this year then I think they are going to be missing a beat. I increasingly hold with the theory that Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom is the last big Switch game and that everything else will be for its successor or at least cross-gen. From cutting carbon emissions to strengthening arms control treaties and investing in pandemic preparedness, we know what needs to be done.I would be very surprised though if it wasn’t announced this year, probably at E3 in June. But our leaders are not acting at sufficient speed or scale to secure a peaceful and liveable planet. “The Doomsday Clock is sounding an alarm for the whole of humanity,” says Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, in a statement. That’s the takeaway many of the clock’s supporters have: A sense of urgency, they argue, can spur action. “Doomsday predictions are rarely informative,” he continued, “but good ones can be directive: They urge us to fix the world.” As Anders Sandberg, an expert on global catastrophic risk at the University of Oxford, wrote in the Conversation in 2015, the Doomsday Clock “is not a measurement of time, probability or distance.” Instead, he argued, “it is a measure of the ‘strong feeling of urgency’ the people who run it have when watching the world-system.” Some critics see this process as arbitrary or useless. The last time the clock changed was in 2020, when the Bulletin set the hands at 100 seconds to midnight. They were farthest from midnight-a record 17 minutes-in 1991, a decision informed by post-Cold War optimism. The clock’s hands can move backwards, forwards or stay the same. “It’s a judgment among experts about whether humanity is safer or at greater risk” compared with the clock’s setting in previous years. The clock is “not a model spitting out a number,” Bronson tells the Washington Post’s Ellen Francis. The board considers factors such as the number of nuclear weapons in the world and the rate of sea level rise, then convenes to make its judgment, which is reflected on a physical version of the clock that lives at the University of Chicago. Twice a year, the bulletin’s science and security board, composed of experts on nuclear weapons and climate change, meets to deliberate. “It is a metaphor, a reminder of the perils we must address if we are to survive on the planet.” Since then, the Bulletin has been regularly resetting the clock to warn the public about “how close we are to destroying our world with dangerous technologies of our own making,” writes the organization. It was set at seven minutes to midnight because, Langsdorf said, “it looked good to my eye,” per the Bulletin’s website. The group of scientists behind the original clock included some who had participated in the Manhattan Project, which created the world’s first nuclear weapons.Īrtist Martyl Langsdorf designed the first version of the clock. The group also attributes its decision to various ongoing concerns, including the climate crisis and the “breakdown of global norms and institutions” needed to navigate “advancing technologies” and biological threats like Covid-19.Ĭonceived in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the clock was originally an analogy for the accelerating threat of nuclear war during the Cold War arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union. The clock’s new position is due “largely but not exclusively” to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has increased the risk of nuclear escalation, says the Bulletin in a statement.
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