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Aside from their unpredictability and their susceptibility to fear, hunger and fatigue, flesh-and blood soldiers think and move on an increasingly irrelevant timescale. From the days of Nebuchadnezzar to those of Saddam Hussein, despite myriad technological improvements, war was waged on an organic timetable. Discussions lasted for hours, battles took days, and wars dragged on for years. Cyber-wars, however, may last just a few minutes.

Excerpted from Page “359” ‘Homo Deus’ by Yuval Noah Harari