The Future of Warfare (and of humanity)
by tdaxp ~ May 19th, 2009
1. How long before an EEG model with wifi capability can be implmanted in soldiers, so that they can silently and telepathically communiate with each other anywhere in the world.
2. How long before such technology can be implanted in newbornes?
May 20th, 2009 at 7:52 am
Reading John Scalzi?
May 20th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Yes. [1]
The only fundemental difference between this and BrainPal(TM) is bandwith. After that, it’s just UX. [2]
I don’t think there is any reason to believe that some form of BrainPal morse code could be taught through behaviorist principles to children in the womb and adults in comas. It’s just a matter of who we would be talking to.
Have you read That Hideous Strength [3]?
[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2009/03/06/review-of-john-scalzis-old-mans-war-series.html
[2] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2009/01/07/r-and-deep-ux.html
[3] http://www.amazon.com/That-Hideous-Strength-Scribner-Classics/dp/0684833670/ref=ed_oe_h
May 21st, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Actually, GHOST IN THE SHELL is what came to my mind.
In both that, and Scalzi’s books, electronic telepathy accompanies a technology that allows brains (or the thoughts and memories stored therein) to be moved between bodies. The good and ill uses of THAT are something else again.
May 21st, 2009 at 6:30 pm
I have read zero of Lewis’s science fiction.
Screwtape was a very important book for me. One line in particular.
May 23rd, 2009 at 11:27 am
I get into a little of this in the chapter I’m sending for the 5GW book.
P.S. Have your heard? Some Russian analysts are writing about sixth-generation war.
May 27th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Michael,
Good point. Body-to-body brain transplants still seem impossibly far off…
Lexingotn Green,
Lewis’s lines have a way of staying like that…
Dan McIntosh,
I got your chapter — thanks!
6GW? Hmm.. Sounds like fluff…
September 12th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
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