The Marshall Plan by Douglas McGray
For 40 years, the man Pentagon insiders call Yoda has foreseen the future of
war - from battlefield bots rolling off radar-proof ships to GIs popping
performance pills. And that was before the war on terror.
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/marshall_pr.html
Think Jason Bourne.
Hallucinations linked to drug given to troops
Feb 14, 2005 - A number of current or former troops sent to Iraq claim that ...
to give to tens of thousands of troops in Iraq in the first place. ...
affairs ordered a review of the drug's use based on troop concerns.
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/6947472/ns/health-mental_health/t/hallucinations-linked-drug-given-troops/
When man and machine merge.
Man is on the extinction trajectory.
Pentagon Pushes for Middle Eastern "Marshall Plan" by Noah Shachtman
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/01/joint-staff-mar/
MIT develops miniature shape-shifting robots - Adario Strange
Friday, November 30, 2012 - 12:32pm
http://www.dvice.com/archives/2012/11/mit_develops_mi.php
Robots to revolutionize farming, ease labor woes
By GOSIA WOZNIACKA and TERENCE CHEA | Associated Press - Mon, Jul 15, 2013 4:33 AM EDT
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/robots-revolutionize-farming-ease-labor-woes-142756655.html
Moore's Law Inspires Intel Innovation
Bold forecast drives groundbreaking new technologies and more power-efficient processors
Intel co-founder Gordon Moore is a visionary.
His bold prediction, popularly known as Moore's Law, states that the number
of transistors on a chip will double approximately every two years [approx. 18 months].
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/silicon-innovations/moores-law-technology.html
Smaller means faster, faster means history unfolds quicker.
(And humans never seem to learn from the past.)
So, unless humans merge with machines, there will be an obsolete human class.
(And we know history is replete with mounds of dead “useless eaters”.)
Singularity University is a benefit corporation learning institution located
inside NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley whose stated aim is to "educate,
inspire and empower leaders to apply exponential technologies to address
humanity's grand challenges."[2] It was founded in the summer of 2009 by
Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil in Moffett Field, CA.[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_University
Singularity: Kurzweil on 2045, When Humans, Machines Merge - TIME
2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
By Lev Grossman Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048299,00.html
H@ppy Human.
Thou Art Not Robot.
Resist. Relive. Recreate. Remake.
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