DARPA-funded Efforts in the Development of Novel Brain–Computer Interface Technologies
DARPA’s BCI programs span four major challenges: detect, emulate, restore, & improve.
Category: Warfare
HACIENDA Port Scanning Program which is targeting systems in 27 countries
British GCHQ confirms the existence of the HACIENDA Port Scanning Program which is targeting systems in 27 countries.
The NASDAQ Hack and Coming Global Cyberwar
“One veteran U.S. official says that when it came to a digital weapon planted in a critical system inside the U.S., he’s seen it only once—in Nasdaq.”
Technological Peace Theory
What is it about technology and industrialization that makes states more peaceful in general, and towards one another?
The Schism
Even in this day of global change and universal paradigm shifts, the technologies that will evolve us beyond our previous states will soon become a reality for everyone. As this may be, there will be one element that will not change. That element is hostility, the very element that has been with us throughout history. In the posthuman era, hostility will still continue to exist and divide us into factions. This time, it will be our choice in form that will cause intolerance and hostility. As one chooses to become part of posthumanity, they will choose to either upload their minds into computers to become one with machinery or evolve their current form using genetic manipulation. It is this choice that will make them part of the Schism.
The Indifference Engine: Manufacturing Consent in a Hyperconnected World
‘The tremendous expansion of communications in the United States has given this Nation the world’s most penetrating and effective apparatus for the transmission of ideas. Every resident is constantly exposed to the impact of our vast network of communications which reach every corner of the country, no matter how remote or isolated. Words hammer continually at the eyes and ears of America. The United States has become a small room in which a single whisper is magnified thousands of times.”
Future Army: Telepresence Battledroids and Smartguns Will Change Warfare Forever
The convergence of robotics and advanced weaponry took another inevitable step forward with a successful live fire demonstration of several armed robots at Fort Benning Georgia that was covered by Computerworld last week and a demonstration of the TrackingPoint “smart gun”.
Call for Articles for Freerange Vol. 8 — animals, humans, robots and the borders and boundaries between them
Freerange Vol.8 is looking for articles, ideas, images, stories, illustrations, inventions, or anything else that might contribute to the theme: animals, humans, robots and the borders and boundaries between them.