Technology News Archive
U.S.
military create live
remote-controlled beetles to bug
conversations
Spies may soon be bugging
conversations using actual insects,
thanks to research funded by the US
military.
Energy
crisis is postponed as new gas
rescues the world
"There has been a revolution in the
gas fields of North America. Reserve
estimates are rising sharply as
technology unlocks unconventional
resources
IBM Builds
'Bar Code Reader' for DNA
Comment from Old-Thinker News:
This technology is being rolled out
with the angle of improved
personalized medicine. Will this be
used in the future for
identification purposes?
Looking at
the Future of Artificial
Intelligence
But this year, the limelight will be
on the era that is to come — and a
movement called Transhumanism, which
supports the use of technology to
improve the human condition
China
weather "magic" conjures blue sky
for parade
China's air force deployed a
"magic-like" range of chemicals and
technology to clear Beijing's smoggy
air for a grand parade marking the
60th anniversary of Communist China,
state media said on Thursday.
Novartis
chip to help ensure bitter pills are
swallowed
Patients who fail to pop pills on
time could soon benefit from having
a chip on their shoulder, under a
ground-breaking electronic system
being developed by
Novartis,
the Swiss pharmaceuticals group.
Neuroengineering to challenge what
it means to be human
“We are on the cusp of a broad neuro-revolution,
one that will radically reshape our
views of perception, cognition,
emotion and even personal identity.”
Google
'evangelist' sees web, brain implant
link
The man regarded as one of the
founding fathers of the internet is
in the country - and he says the
future of the web is in our bodies
and in outer space.
Where tech
and philosophy collide
Laurie thinks the future will see a
class divide between those who can
afford the latest technology and
those who can't.
DNA
Evidence Can Be Fabricated,
Scientists Show
Scientists in Israel have
demonstrated that it is possible to
fabricate DNA evidence, undermining
the credibility of what has been
considered the gold standard of
proof in criminal cases.
IBM uses
DNA to make next-gen microchips
nternational Business Machines Corp
is looking to the building blocks of
our bodies -- DNA -- to be the
structure of next-generation
microchips.
Oman takes lead as e-Purse marks new era of
cashless society
Coming as part of the ambitious national e-Governance initiative,
the state-of-the-art e-Purse embedded on national ID and resident
cards is the first of its kind in the region.
Web
Squared: When Web 2.0 Meets Internet
of Things
One contentious point in the report
is when it questioned whether RFID
is actually required to make an
Internet of Things. The authors
argue that it isn't
Video: Brave New World - Genetic tests used to project future career/skills
Transparent aluminium is 'new state
of matter'
Oxford scientists
have created a transparent form of
aluminium by bombarding the metal
with the world’s most powerful soft
X-ray laser.
Better
Vision, With a Telescope Inside the
Eye
A TINY glass telescope, the size of
a pea, has been successfully
implanted in the eyes of people with
severely damaged retinas, helping
them to read, watch television and
better see familiar faces
Dream
Society Controlled by Ubiquitous
RFID
With computers naturally emerging as
part of people’s everyday lives,
everything has become intelligent
and networked, making communications
among people and between remote
devices possible.
Related:
Orwellian Ubiquitous Computing May Build Ultimate Surveillance
Society
MIT
develops camera-like fabric
"This is the first time that anybody
has demonstrated that a single plane
of fibers, or 'fabric,' can collect
images just like a camera but
without a lens,
Hope for
blindness cure with laser
breakthrough
Pulses of light clean key membrane
to prevent the onset of macular
degeneration
Video: Nano, the next dimension
Layar: The first mobile augmented reality browser
ADHD Drugs
Linked to Sudden Death
Some Parents Believe New Study
Reinforces Link Between Stimulants,
Cardiac Death
IDF
developing battlefield robot snake
A
robot snake, capable of recording
video and
sound
on the battlefield, is on the way to
join the the IDF's hi-tech arsenal.
Predictive
powers: a robot that reads your
intention?
European researchers
in robotics, psychology and
cognitive sciences have developed a
robot that can predict the
intentions of its human partner.
TV Causes
Learning Lag in Infants
Even infants zone out in front of
the television, and it turns out
this translates into less time
interacting with parents and
possible lags in
language development, a new
study finds.
The significance of the successfully developed GM food vaccine
EU advises
on posthuman cyborg future
Cosmetic surgeries, cybernetic body
enhancements and smart drugs
GPS system
'close to breakdown'
Network of satellites could begin to
fail as early as 2010
Pentagon
Preps Soldier Telepathy Push
Forget the battlefield radios, the
combat PDAs or even infantry hand
signals. When the soldiers of the
future want to communicate, they’ll
read each other’s minds.
Bill Gates
funds British scientists in
unorthodox health research
There is a magnet that can detect
malaria at the flick of a switch, a
flu-resistant chicken, an
“antiviral” tomato and a vaccine
enhanced with the use of a laser.
Chipping
away at security
Radio frequency technologies are
getting more powerful - and
vulnerable to attack
How Many People Will Have Cancer in
2030?
2.3 Million in the U.S., Says a New
Study; Elderly, Minorities May Be
Especially Hard Hit
Mattel
pacts with 'Mindflex' creator
Mattel has inked an exclusive
multi-year partnership with NeuroSky,
the “consumer brain-computer
interface technologies”
GE Unveils
500-GB, Holographic Disc Storage
Technology
GE said on Monday it
has demonstrated micro-holographic
storage material that one day could
result in the ability to store 500
GB of data on a standard DVD-size
disc.
Fluorescent puppy is world's first
transgenic dog
A cloned beagle named Ruppy – short
for Ruby Puppy – is the world's
first transgenic dog. She and four
other beagles all produce a
fluorescent protein that glows red
under ultraviolet light.
I've cloned a human: Extraordinary claims of a doctor who 'has implanted embryos into four women'
Killer
robots and a revolution in warfare
They have no fear, they never tire,
they are not upset when the soldier
next to them gets blown to pieces
Virtual reality via nanobot
injection? Ray Kurzweil says it’s
the future
Futurist Ray Kurzweil says it’s that
kind of virtual reality will make
virtual travel possible.
Video: VA Highschool Students Discuss Transhumanism
Robot
achieves scientific first
A laboratory robot called Adam has
been hailed as the first machine in
history to have discovered new
scientific knowledge independently
of its human creators.
Honda
connects brain thoughts with
robotics
Opening a car
trunk or controlling a home air
conditioner could become just a wish
away with Honda's new technology
that connects thoughts inside a
brain with robotics.
A robot so
tiny it can alter DNA code
After years of research, a team of
chemists from NYU and China’s
Nanjing University has created a
two-armed nanorobot with the ability
to alter and exchange pieces of
genetic code
Australians denied life insurance over genes: study - Lateline
Smartphone track user interests, habits, location
Nanotechnology goes to war
The Pentagon is pioneering micro
technology for just about every
device, from 10g video cameras to
tiny atomic clocks on a chip
Italian
doctor says he has cloned three
babies
A controversial
Italian doctor known for his work
allowing post-menopausal women to
have children has claimed in an
interview to have cloned three
babies who are now living in eastern
Europe.
Designer
Babies - Like It Or Not, Here They
Come
The Fertility Institutes recently
stunned the fertility community by
being the first company to boldly
offer couples the opportunity to
screen their embryos not only for
diseases and gender, but also for
completely benign characteristics
such as eye color, hair color, and
complexion
Experts
Warn of 'Terminator'-Style
Military-Robot Rebellion
The stark warning – which includes
discussion of a Terminator-style
scenario in which robots turn on
their human masters – is issued in a
hefty report funded by and prepared
for the US Navy’s high-tech and
secretive Office of Naval Research .
Rolling out
'the Internet of things'
At a time when computers are packing
more brainpower into ever smaller
devices, ZeroG promotes the idea of
adding a tiny bit of Wi-Fi
connectivity to literally billions
of electronic devices that today are
unconnected.
New effort to win EU acceptance for genetically modified crops
Obama:
Think Smart Cards
Trempont also foresees applications
for welfare management. In Mexico,
for example, food stamps are
administered by a smart-card system.
Cards are issued to women for their
children. The cards record whether
the children are attending school
regularly, getting appropriate
vaccinations and so on.
Study takes
step toward erasing bad memories
A widely available blood pressure
pill could one day help people erase
bad memories, perhaps treating some
anxiety disorders and phobias,
according to a Dutch study published
on Sunday.
Nanocarbon Modeling May Be the Next Step Toward Emulating Human Brain Function
Televisions
'to be fitted in contact lenses
within ten years'
A "digital tattoo" fitted to the
viewer would pick up on the feelings
of characters on screen and create
impulses causing them to feel the
same way.
Future Minds: Transhumanism, Cognitive Enhancement and the Nature of Persons
MIT
researchers make 'sixth sense'
gadget
"It is very much a work in progress.
Maybe in ten years we will be here
with the ultimate sixth-sense brain
implant."
Google and
Nasa back new school for futurists
Google and Nasa are
throwing their weight behind a new
school for futurists in Silicon
Valley to prepare scientists for an
era when machines become cleverer
than people.
Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury
Google
plans to make PCs history
It is seen as a paradigm shift away
from Microsoft's Windows operating
system, which runs inside most of
the world's computers, in favour of
"cloud computing", where the
processing and storage is done
thousands of miles away in remote
data centres.
Googling
the Future
Companies have long paid handsomely
for reports and expertise on rising
trends. Now Google is threatening
this lucrative niche.
'Memory pill' that could help with exam revision could be available soon
Soldiers'
kids could get virtual mums and dads
IT IS a poor substitute for the real
thing, but the US government is
hoping a "virtual parent" could
provide emotional support for the
children of servicemen and women
while they are away on active duty.
Nano-submarine to target infected cells with precision
Genetic
engineering creates first 'cancer
free' baby
How far is too far when it comes to
genetic engineering?
We have the
technology to rebuild ourselves
After decades of amputees having to
make do with designs that had
changed little since the second
world war, artificial limbs that
predict their user's every movement
and look like the real thing are
finally breaking out of the lab
Air Force Releases 'Counter-Blog' Marching Orders
The
Technocracy and the Genetic
Engineering of Humanity
We already live in a world of ‘haves
and have-nots’, but in the future
could that gap widen into an immense
chasm resulting in a technocracy
with two-tiers of genetically
engineered humans?
Report:
U.S. lax on testing nanotech safety
Advisory council says not enough
being done to study potential health
hazards
Flashback:
A Global
Wireless Network?
Under WSAN application, deployment
and eExperiences, various themes
such as surveillance, disaster
prediction and management,
transportation and traffic
management, security and defence...
Hobbyists
are trying genetic engineering at
home
he Apple
computer was invented in a garage.
Same with the Google search engine.
Now, tinkerers are working at home
with the basic building blocks of
life itself.
Robots
ready to run the world
Researchers predict there will be a
surge in the worldwide dependency of
robots during the next decade.
Towards
responsible use of
cognitive-enhancing drugs by the
healthy
Society must respond to the growing
demand for cognitive enhancement.
SEGA Interested In Microchip Implants For Games
GM Crops Climb to
Nearly One-Tenth of Global Crop Production
Genetically Modified crops have
risen to the level of nine percent
of world crops, warned the
Worldwatch Institute today
Foods as
Production and Delivery Vehicles for
Human Vaccines
Mosquitoes Genetically Engineered To Vaccinate People in 1990's
Sick babies denied treatment due to corp. patent on gene
Video:
The Age of
Transitions
Converging technology, transhumanism,
and our future in the making.
Genetically modified maize lowers
fertility in mice, study finds
Feeding mice with genetically
engineered maize developed by the
US-based Monsanto corporation led to
lower fertility and body weight,
according to a study conducted by
the University of Veterinary
Medicine in Vienna
Designer
babies: Creating the perfect child
Bring your partner, grab a seat,
pick up your baby catalog and start
choosing.
Video: Human v2.0
AT&T to try
limits on monthly Internet traffic
AT&T Inc.
(ATT), the country's largest
Internet service provider, is
testing the idea of limiting the
amount of data that subscribers can
use each month.
EU Set to Move 'Internet of Things' Closer to Reality
EU to
govern Internet of the future
Related:
Ubiquitous Computing: Big Brother's All-Seeing Eye
Microsoft
Patents Censorship Bot
As the Times Online reports, the
corporate behemoth Microsoft is on
the verge of unleashing a technology
capable of eliminating “green
inkers” and conspiracy theorists.
Video: Shut up and eat your clones
Former
author talks about dangers of
modified foods
Genetic pollution could last longer
than nuclear waste and global
warming, said Jeffrey Smith, author
of "Seeds of Deception,"
Free
Nationwide Wi-Fi Network To Censor
Political Websites
Blogs, social networks, alternative
news to be filtered out
California Bans RFID Skimming
Advocates of the bill say it will
help maintain security for millions
of state residents who use the
technology in their everyday lives.
New airport screening 'could read
minds'
US security officials could soon be
screening potential terror suspects
with a new type of technology
capable of detecting "hostile
intent"
Schoolchildren could be given ’smart
drugs’ in a bid to boost brainpower
Schools should be prepared to ensure
all pupils have access to
brain-enhancing ’smart drugs’,
according to forecasts by
Government-funded researchers.
Video: Cell regeneration now a reality
Axcess International Intros First Smart Wireless Sticker
Clones' offspring may be in food supply: FDA
Synthetic Blood From Stem Cells? Yes, a Company Says
Japan aims to put 'wallet phone' in global
pockets
Related video:
Ubiquitous Computing: Big Brother's All-Seeing Eye
A 'Frankenrobot' with a biological brain
The Future of the ‘iPatriot Act’
What all of this amounts to is that agencies and officials are
pushing increasingly closed systems of code and increasingly strict
Intellectual Property regulations
Secret Bluetooth surveillance study
The Cityware study - has been set up with the objective “to develop
theory, principles, tools and techniques for the design,
implementation and evaluation of city-scale pervasive
systems
as integral facets of the urban landscape"
Video:
Future Store
Comment from
Old-Thinker News: This is
precisely the method that was
outlined in the March 2008 International
Conference on the Internet of Things to introduce
(and lead to acceptance of) RFID technology on a widespread scale.
Video: The Future of communication
Conference Examines Man and Machine
Merging, How Tech Will Make Human Brain Obsolete
New conference examines what risks super intelligent
robots might hold and how man itself may merge with machine to the
point where it is no longer recognizable as human
Google Is Watching, Perhaps Soon In Your
Home
Related:
Orwellian Ubiquitous Computing May Build Ultimate Surveillance
Society
For Future of Mind Control, Robot-Monkey
Trials Are Just a Start
In May,
researchers at the University of Pittsburgh said they had taught two
monkeys to grab small amounts of food with a mechanical arm using
their brains
'Invisible Wars' of the Future: E-Bombs,
Laser Guns and Acoustic Weapons
The pace of continuous progress made by science and technology keeps
growing faster
New discipline of "neuroethics" to study
improvement of IQ, other characteristics
Professor Savulescu has become notorious for arguing that we should
genetically enhance the human species by improving IQ, behaviour,
mood, character and morality
The Latest Rage: Invasion of the Body
Scanners!
Unsatisfied with patting down barefoot grandmothers, the TSA is now
ready to deploy an even more fun toy — body scanners that allow for
a full inspection of the airline security victim’s body through his
clothing
Oxytocin drug to be used to quell the masses?
Mind Control by Cell Phone
Not only could the cell phone signals alter a person's behavior
during the call, the effects of the disrupted brain-wave patterns
continued long after the phone was switched off.
Race-specific drugs: regulatory trends and
public policy
Comment from Old-Thinker News:
The ability to manufacture race-specific medication naturally takes
us to the other side, race-specific bioweapons.
Top Pentagon Scientists Fear Brain-Modified
Foes
There's concern in some corners of the U.S. military about "enemy
activities in sleep research," neuro-pharmaceutical performance
enhancement, and "brain-computer interfaces
'Skin-tenna' wireless signals creep over
human skin
A wireless antenna that channels signals along human skin could
broadcast signals over your body to connect up medical implants or
portable gadgets
The Future Is Now? Pretty Soon, at Least
Nanotechnology, transhumanism and the
bionic man
One goal is to establish direct links between neuronal tissue and
machines that would allow direct control of mechanical, electronic,
and even virtual objects as if they were extensions of human bodies
Video: ABC News on the Ubiquitous smart home of the future
New Meaning For The Term 'Computer Bug': Genetically Altered Bacteria For Data Storage
Who's afraid
of a synthetic human?
If we can enhance our species - make it live longer and resist
disease - we should do it
Gordon Brown backs animal-human hybrids
Gordon Brown today strongly defended the medical use of animal-human
hybrid embryos, ahead of a key Commons vote on the issue
Video:
Welcome to the Brave New World
What does the future hold for us?
Are we headed for a Brave New World?
Scientist team creates first GM human embryo
Neuroscientist: Modern Technology is Altering our Brains
Gates says big changes in store for
Internet in next decade
Comment from Old-Thinker News: It is very likely that
the "changes" that Gates is referring to have to do with ubiquitous
computing. What does this mean for you? A world with little to no
privacy in which everyday objects are integrated into a vast
wireless network. Watch
this presentation for more
information.
America's Chemically Modified 21st Century Soldiers
The man who grew a finger
The process he has been pioneering over the last few years involves
scraping the cells from the lining of a pig's bladder
Remote Sensors Under Skin Of Humans Can Monitor Emotions
Video: The Mad Scientists of Transhumanism
“One World, One Web” Conference Held in China
Smart Goggles Are No Longer Science Fiction
Public health experts warn of
Chinese genetic rice
PUBLIC health bosses have issued a warning in East London about
'genetically modified' rice being sold in the shops.
'Now we have the technology that can make a
cloned child'
A new form of cloning has been developed that is easier to carry out
than the technique used to create Dolly the sheep, raising fears
that it may one day be used on human embryos to produce "designer"
babies
Australia lifts ban on therapeutic cloning for
stem cell research
This week saw Australian parliament debate and eventually lift its
prohibition on human therapeutic cloning
Matrix-style virtual worlds 'a few years
away'
Are supercomputers on the verge of creating Matrix-style
simulated realities?
Scientists Scared of Socks as Nanotechnology and Nanoparticles Become Common in Consumer Products
Video: Exoskeleton Turns Humans Into Terminators
Neuromarketing could make mind reading the
ad-man's ultimate tool
Neuroscience and marketing had a love child a few years back. Its
name - big surprise - is neuromarketing, and the ugly little fellow
is growing up
High-tech gear disables car if borrower
misses payment
When the light starts to flash, you had better have the cash
Video: Everyware- The dawning age of ubiquitous computing
Video: StickyBot - Robotic Gecko
Brave New World War
The day will come, perhaps even within a decade, when at least a
subset of the human race will have the ability to control key
aspects of its own evolution
Federal Protection Against Genetic Discrimination Urged By American College of Physicians
Documentary: Visions Of The Future: The Intelligence Revolution
New Video of BigDog Quadruped Robot Is So Stunning It's Spooky
Nerve-tapping neckband used in 'telepathic' chat
Molecular computer could be 'nanobot brain'
A molecular machine has been devised as the potential brain of "nanobots"
now under study for uses in medicine
Ray Kurzweil speaks about the future in honor of Founder's Day
Robot wars 'will be a reality within 10 years'
The world is sleepwalking into an international robot arms race, an
expert will warn today
Automated killer robots 'threat to humanity': expert
Ray Kurzweil Sells Transhumanism To Gamers
Machines 'to match man by 2029'
Humanity is on the brink of advances that will see tiny robots
implanted in people's brains
First order for pet dog cloning
A South Korean company says it has taken its first order for the
cloning of a pet dog
Navy Research Paper: 'Disrupt Economies' with Man-Made 'Floods,' 'Droughts'
Three-parent embryo formed in lab
The embryos have been created using DNA from a man and two women in
lab tests
Video: Navy Tests Railgun
DNA Breakthrough Could Give Humans Lifespans
Lasting Hundreds of Years
A genetically engineered organism that lives 10 times longer than
normal has been created by scientists in California
Behavior-Based Internet Advertising: Who Is
Watching You?
Have you ever been surfing the web and come upon Internet
advertising that provides a direct solution for something that
you've been researching lately?
Synthetic life
'advance'
reported
An important
step has been
taken in the
quest to create
a synthetic
lifeform.
"Technology
overload" can
ruin
relationships:
expert
Technology might
be just as
addictive as
alcohol and
drugs and could
also wreak havoc
with personal
and work
relationships, a
leading expert
said.
AT&T Looking at Internet Filtering
A circuit for
the eye
"Looking through
a completed
lens, you would
see what the
display is
generating,
superimposed on
the world
outside"
First
animal-human
embryo trials to
go ahead
Experiments to
create Britain’s
first embryos
that merge human
and animal
material will
begin within
months after a
Government
watchdog today
approved two
research teams
to carry out the
controversial
work
Monkey Brain Controls
Walking 'Bot
When our robotic overlords finally do take over,
there's a decent chance they'll do it with
monkey brains.
Microsoft seeks patent
for office 'spy' software
The system would allow managers to monitor employees’ performance by
measuring their heart rate, body temperature,
movement, facial expression and blood pressure.
FDA Says Clones Are
Safe For Food
A long-awaited final report from the Food and
Drug Administration concludes that foods from
healthy cloned animals and their offspring are
as safe as those from ordinary animals
Prisoners 'to be
chipped like dogs'
One company plans deeper implants that could
vibrate, electroshock the implantee, broadcast a
message, or serve as a microphone to transmit
conversations.
Video games rewiring
kids brains
Children should be banned from playing computer
games until the age of seven because the
technology is "rewiring" their brains, it is
claimed
Trends to a
New World Order: Part 2
Will these trends benefit the average man, woman
and child as we are told they will? Or, will a
New World Order be constructed solely for the
benefit of a tiny elite?
AT&T and Other ISPs May
Be Getting Ready to Filter
At a small panel discussion about digital piracy
here at NBC’s booth on the Consumer Electronics
Show floor, representatives from NBC, Microsoft,
several digital filtering companies and telecom
giant AT&T said the time was right to start
filtering for copyrighted content at the network
level.
Table Touch Screen
Terminals To Replace Waiters
way. With the world's technological advances
taking enormous strides, what can possibly be
next in the world of consumer-driven
convenience?
Scientist: 'Hybrid'
computers will meld living brains with
technology
A scientist who successfully connected a moth's
brain to a robot predicts that in 10 to 15 years
we'll be using "hybrid" computers running a
combination of technology and living organic
tissue
Sci-Fi Supermarket:
High-Tech Innovations Coming to the Grocery
Store
Shopping Carts
That Scan Prices, Touch Screen Checkout,
Shopping Refrigerators and More
Microsoft readies Hal
9000
It gives a whole new meaning to the word
"micromanager."
Japan Clamps Down on
Internet
The fact is that internet censorship is coming
to Japan, although so far the Japanese public
hasn't seemed to notice.
Snorting a Brain
Chemical Could Replace Sleep
In what sounds like a dream for millions of
tired coffee drinkers, Darpa-funded scientists
might have found a drug that will eliminate
sleepiness.
Borg Hive Technology
Now Nearly Main Street
You will be assimilated.
Commercial brain
computer systems are coming
All over the world, systems that directly
connect silicon circuits to brains are under
development, and some are nearly ready for
commercial applications, according to a new
report from the World Technology Evaluation
Center and announced by a news release of the
University of Southern California (USC).
The New Skynet: Total
War Control
Information warfare technology and advanced
human cognition have been in development for
years, but only in recent times have nations
begun to share obtained technology and
advancements in the respective fields.
Synthetic DNA on the
Brink of Yielding New Life Forms
Now researchers are poised to cross a dramatic
barrier: the creation of life forms driven by
completely artificial DNA.
Light + Sound = New
Weapon
Military funded researchers are preparing to
test a nonlethal weapon that combines light and
sound.
Hear Voices? It May Be
an Ad
An A&E Billboard 'Whispers' a Spooky Message
Audible Only in Your Head in Push to Promote Its
New 'Paranormal' Program
Against the Grain:
'We'll be able to upload our brains to a
computer'
Anders Sandberg is James Martin Research Fellow
at the Future of Humanity Institute, University
of Oxford. Dr Sandberg believes that in the
future we will be able to, and should,
dramatically change what it means to be human.
IBM forms alliance
around 32nm chip technology
IBM has formed an alliance with semiconductor
firms, including AMD and Samsung, to advance its
32-nanometer chip technology to rival that of
Intel.
Beijing Olympics Will
Use IBM High-Tech Surveillance System
When the S3 system is deployed in the Beijing
Olympic Games, it will scan video images of city
streets looking for everything from
troublemakers to terrorists.
The Unknown Dangers of
Nanotech
Nanotechnology could become a revolutionary
force in the near future, but its
microparticulate nature poses uncertain risks
and unknown dangers as it infuses unchecked with
foods, cosmetics, medical treatments, plastics
and many other materials which already permeate
hundreds of consumer products.
Information Warfare Using
Aggressive Psychological Operations -
Information Operation Roadmap
Part 4
The Pentagon's
plans for psychological operations or PSYOP in the
global information environment of the 21st century are
wide ranging and aggressive. These desires are outlined
in the 2003 Pentagon document signed by Donald Rumsfeld
in his capacity as the Secretary of Defense called the
Information Operation Roadmap.
Maximum
Control of the Entire Electro-Magnetic Spectrum -
Information Operation Roadmap Part 2
In 2003, then Secretary
of Defence Donald Rumsfeld signed a document called the
Information Operation Roadmap which outlined, among
other things, the Pentagon's desire to dominate the
entire electromagnetic spectrum.
Transhumanism: Life extension
not for the masses?
More pragmatically, AI member Marvin Minsky, a pioneer
of artificial neural networks and co-founder of the AI
lab at MIT, explains why humanity would want this.
"Ordinary citizens wouldn't know what to do with eternal
life," Minsky explained to Egan. "The masses don't have
any clear-cut goals or purpose."
They Live Taser Saucer To
Become A Reality
One of the
biggest Taser representatives outside the US base has
declared the company's intention to produce and sell
internationally a small airborne drone version of the
weapon that can administer electrical jolts of 50,000
volts.