{"id":93020,"date":"2019-11-29T11:30:45","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T15:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=93020"},"modified":"2019-11-29T09:58:35","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T13:58:35","slug":"cyborg-troops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=93020","title":{"rendered":"Cyborg Troops?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Get Some!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cyborg warriors?\u00a0 This article forecasts this capability by 2050.\u00a0 If it sounds impossible, think again.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/11\/27\/cyborg-warriors-could-be-here-by-2050-dod-study-group-says\/<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article:<\/p>\n

The team identified four capabilities as technically feasible by 2050:<\/p>\n

– ocular enhancements to imaging, sight and situational awareness;<\/p>\n

– restoration and programmed muscular control through an optogenetic bodysuit sensor web;<\/p>\n

– auditory enhancement for communication and protection; and<\/p>\n

– direct neural enhancement of the human brain for two-way data transfer.<\/p>\n

The study group suggested that direct neural enhancements in particular could revolutionize combat. – article<\/p>\n

Have they never heard of \u201ckeep it simple\u201d?\u00a0 And what happens when the battle is over and these \u201cconnections\u201d have to be removed? Will these vets get stopped at airports by TSA tweeks because they\u2019re wired for war? How much crap will the VA hand them over removing that electronic junk if they don’t want to keep it?<\/p>\n

Instead of adding plug=ins to living humans, why not put effort into developing drones that are so intimidating, the bad guys will throw down their guns and run away? The Terminator and its subsequent models were sophisticated robots made to look semi-human, but underneath the fake skin, they were just machines, including those that could just ooze through barriers and mimic humans. “Direct neural enhancements” mean electronic implants that may or may not be removable. If the troop ends up KIA, does anyone besides me think his corpse won’t be dragged off the field by The Enemy for the Russians or Chinese to use?<\/p>\n

I’m always in favor of advances in technology, but this smacks of too much dependence on it. If every bit of electronic junk – everything in the world – shut down for an extended period\u00a0 and couldn’t be brought back online until a specific and undisclosed date, what would happen? And I mean everything, including phones of any kind, radio, TV, the net, the so-called ‘dark web’ – all of it, no exceptions.<\/p>\n

So why not just build robots or battlebots or whatever, and leave the hoomans out of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cyborg warriors?\u00a0 This article forecasts this capability by 2050.\u00a0 If it sounds impossible, think again. https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/11\/27\/cyborg-warriors-could-be-here-by-2050-dod-study-group-says\/ … Cyborg Troops?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,213,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-disposable-warriors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93021,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93020\/revisions\/93021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}