‘Living Nostradamus’ warns next conflict will be an ‘invisible war’ | World | News
The self-styled “Living Nostradamus” has laid out a chilling vision of how future wars might be fought, and it has nothing to do with armies, weapons or territorial conquests.
Covid-19, Queen Elizabeth II. Athos Salomé, a 39-year-old Brazilian futurist who claimed to have predicted Elizabeth’s death and cyber attacks at the Paris 2024 Olympics, said that the next phase of the global conflict will take place not on the battlefield, but in the invisible world of data, satellites and artificial intelligence.
What does ‘Living Nostradamus’ predict about future wars?
Salomé predicts that war will shift from “soldiers, tanks and territory” to a new form of conflict, which he describes as “selective intelligence disruptions” in which enemies target the systems that nations rely on to understand the world around them.
The hallmark of this new type of conflict, he argues, will be “coordinated failures in climate forecasting systems, air defense networks, orbital monitoring, and civilian communications”—attacks designed to deceive, not destroy. In extreme cases, he warns, entire satellites could disappear from tracking systems, while radar and military AI platforms could produce false readings.
“The consequences would be disastrous,” Salomé said. “There will no longer be a need to destroy a superpower; just make it see the world the wrong way for a few precious hours.”
Is technological war already taking place?
Ladbible reports that the concept of high-tech conflict is not entirely hypothetical.
MPs have raised concerns about a growing number of so-called “grey zone” attacks on UK soil linked to alleged Russian mercenary groups, while drones, disinformation campaigns and hacking operations are being used in the ongoing US-Iran war.
Salomé argues that the building blocks are already visible: nations racing to dominate artificial intelligence, a new generation of low-orbit spy satellites, self-piloting drone fleets, hypersonic detection platforms, and ever-increasing cyberattack campaigns.
Where will future wars be fought?
In Salomé’s vision, the targets of future conflicts will not be major cities or population centers, but facilities where the most advanced military technology is developed. He singles out Huntsville, Alabama, nicknamed “Rocket City,” as a prime example of this.
Huntsville, home to Redstone Arsenal, one of America’s most important defense and aerospace centers, is, in Salomé’s words, “one of the most advanced centers in the world in terms of radar systems, predictive intelligence, missile defense and automated warfare.”
He suggests that some nations may already be targeting places like this.
“The war of the future may not be won in the hands of the strongest nation,” he concluded. “But we can witness the attack before anyone else in the country.”
