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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

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

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

BLIND WOMAN sees with new implant, plays video game sent straight to her brain.” https://lnkd.in/dY_qt4Y View in LinkedIn

THERE IS NO NEED to continue to chronicle the obvious downsides of enhancement technology in the military. We have come to learn that almost every powerful technology is "dual use technology" and this is the new reality. View in LinkedIn