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microchipped military personnel improves US war capability

dh | 06.02.2002 21:57

With Blunkett now determined to introduce smart ID cards, it is well to consider this US Department of Defense report on, among other things, the benefits of brain-chipping military personnel to conduct operations via sattelite links. We may well have already seen the results of this in Afghanistan. And what can we deduce from this person/machine tango about the possibilities of universal control of the majority by the very few?

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SOD IT!

06.02.2002 22:15

HERE'S THE LINK

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mechanistic views make humans subservient

06.02.2002 22:30

And just mark this reference - a call for absence of human referencing in the battlefield situation - nightmare or what?

114. Col Joseph A. Engelbrecht, Jr., 2025 research
director, and professor of Conflict and Change, Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Ala., personal interview with Major Whitehead, 17 March 1996. Colonel Engelbrecht explains that "Eliminating human biases may be impossible. Since the decision is reserved for the commander or decision maker, the potential for bias may always remain. On the other hand, communication theory and prospect theory from psychology suggest the importance of how the message is "framed." Framing the message can set up a bias in the human receiver. Thus, potentially, technology should be able to help by providing alternate frames or contexts or highlighting a perspective highly relevant for the data and circumstance. While designing the technology to meet the challenge may be difficult, if it is not pursued humans may be trapped in a noisy cacophony of inputs that become screened or skewed simply because little progress has been made in human-machine interfaces."

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