Month: September 2022

OPPONENTS OF HUMAN AUGMENTATION are often quick to point out the dangers of military augmentation. While they have invested heavily in this technology and advanced the field, the downsides are obvious. Just as sex is supposed to have driven the internet, it could be said that the military applications drive augmentation. View in LinkedIn

AND A LOT MORE. "In 2002, Dr Joseph Bielitzki, chair of DARPA’s Defense Sciences Office, announced a grand program to improve soldiers, with the slogan “Be all that you can be, and a lot more.” His targets: sleep, fatigue, pain, and blood loss. Other projects studied psychological stress, memory, and learning." https://lnkd.in/d-dYtnw View in LinkedIn

WIRED AND NETWORKED. "The next year, the Army launched the multibillion dollar Future Combat System to transform the military into a fast and flexible force of networked sensors, combat vehicles, and wired soldiers." https://lnkd.in/d-dYtnw View in LinkedIn

KING CNUT. “Elon Musk backs call for global ban on killer robots.” https://lnkd.in/dXF3TPc View in LinkedIn

OXYMORON DEFINED. "Our ability to "upgrade" the bodies of soldiers through drugs, implants, and exoskeletons may be upending the ethical norms of war as we've understood them." https://lnkd.in/dxCAw5Q View in LinkedIn

POLITICALLY CORRECT. "By 2008, the focus at DARPA was no longer human enhancement, it was performance optimization. Metabolic dominance research focused on re-engineering mitochondria, the body’s power plant, became Peak Soldier Performance, an investigation into over-the-counter nutritional supplements." https://lnkd.in/d-dYtnw View in LinkedIn