ON THE RECORD: Palmer’s Prophecy – Predictions Are Starting to Come True

This monologue exists for one reason: to go on the record. Two months ago, science fiction author D. Colin Palmer released a 15-minute video entitled “Autonomous Weapons in China, Killer Robots and the Philosophy of Control,” laying out a series of predictions about the rise of AI-driven warfare, Chinese military strategy, and the way robotic control systems would reshape geopolitics. At the time, some of those ideas sounded extreme, even conspiratorial. As new footage, new headlines, and new deployments quietly roll out across the world, evidence is beginning to line up behind what was said in that earlier broadcast.

In this follow-up, Palmer steps back and explains his method. He contrasts his approach with Isaac Asimov’s famously rigorous futurology: Asimov’s mountain of scientific reading, his disciplined logic, his careful extrapolation of social and technological trends. Palmer respects that lineage, but works from a different toolkit. Here he walks the listener through a hybrid methodology that combines deep reading, systems thinking, Buddhist meditation, gambling mathematics, and a four-block-universe view of time. No mysticism, no secret sources, no “insider leaks” – just a neurodivergent mind collapsing thousands of possible futures down to the handful that are structurally compatible with human nature, existing power structures, and current technology.

From that framework he moves into a series of intense predictions about the near and medium-term future: the spread of autonomous killing machines, shifts in great-power alliances, the economic and political consequences for Western states, and the kinds of desperate decisions leaders make when history corners them. These are not presented as fantasies or wish-fulfilment, but as testable hypotheses generated from a clear, stated method. If you watched “Autonomous Weapons in China, Killer Robots and the Philosophy of Control,” this monologue is the missing piece: the blueprint behind the first wave of calls, and the starting point for the next set of predictions that are now being placed, deliberately, on the public record.