A Deep Conversation with Burn-In Author & Futurist P.W. Singer

Unlike HUMINT (human intelligence) and SIGINT (signals intelligence), using FICINT, or fictional intelligence, to envision future war is a relative newcomer.

In most forecasting scenarios, wargaming and simulations can take planners only so far. The strength of FICINT, especially in the hands of a talented author, is that it can analyze and develop war s…