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Quick overview of biopolitical points of view



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The Dark Side of Technology

Watch it Fly and Spy

Nano Robo-Fly

France outlaws Armenian Genocide denial

Mental illness ‘rampant’ in Somalia due to Civil War stress

We Love You - Iran & Israel

‪Brain Waves Module 3: Neuroscience, Security and Conflict‬

Libya’s rebels go gunning for Syria, to topple Assad

When Robotic Warfare Goes Wrong - Do We Need New Rules of Combat?

Iran and Disaster

Getting in Shape and Preventing Nuclear War

A Short History of the Future

Open Source Warfare and Resilient Communities

What does it feel like to fly over planet Earth?

The Future of Freedom pt2




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Massively-Multiplayer Decepticon

by Jamais Cascio

A new pandemic is sweeping the planet. Police fired on secessionist demonstrators in Oregon. The Chinese government is trying (unsuccessfully) to suppress news of eco-terrorists bombing multiple coal-fired power plants. We’re looking at climate refugees numbering in the tens of millions. The human race will go extinct by 2042.

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Some Pics from the Catastrophic Risk Conference at Oxford

I’m just recovering from the great time we had in Oxford last week talking about the different ways that human civilization might get wiped out, and what to do to prevent that.

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Civilization’s Demise

by Mike Treder

Our global civilization is very fragile, and could crumble under the impact of catastrophic events. Wise use of emerging technologies could make our bodies, our communities and our civilization more resilient, or more vulnerable to collapse.

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Battlebots with a Conscience?

by Mike Treder

A new meme is quietly developing about the danger of ‘killer robots’.

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The Renewable Proliferation Treaty

by Jamais Cascio

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NNPT), originally promulgated in 1968 and entering into force in 1970, has three key provisions: that nuclear weapon-free signatory states refrain from developing nuclear weapons; that signatory states with nuclear weapons work to disarm; and that signatory states remain free to develop nuclear energy technologies.

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Battlefield Earth

by Jamais Cascio

It’s only a matter of time before the world’s militaries learn to wield geo-engineering of the climate as a weapon.

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Review of Military Nanotechnology

by Mike Treder

Deeply researched and carefully worded, Military Nanotechnology is an overview of an emerging technology that could trigger a new arms race and gravely threaten international security and stability.

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Autonomous Killing Machines

by Kristi Scott

Christopher Csikszentmihalyi’s concerns about military robotics in Engineering Politics are valid. They are why I got involved with the IEET in the first place. But his effort to communicate to the general public comes up a bit short.

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Sovereignty and the problem of political relativism: Why we need a world without borders

by George Dvorsky

Several days ago I argued that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should have been arrested upon his entry into the United States. I wanted to show how absurd it was that this political criminal is allowed to travel at will and be afforded diplomatic courtesies.

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Armed Robots Make History

by Mike Treder

For the first time in the history of warfare, robots with guns have been deployed.

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On the Future of Warfare

by Mike Treder

On July 30th I gave an hour-long presentation on “Nanotechnology and the Future of Warfare” at the World Future Society’s annual conference. You can view the presentation here.

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Humans and Violence

by Mike Treder

Harvard psychology professor Steven Pinker asserts that: “Violence has been in decline over long stretches of history, and today we are probably living in the most peaceful moment of our species’ time on earth.”

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Journal of Evolution and Technology June 2007, 16(1): Contents

Robert Freitas  
"The Ideal Gene Delivery Vector: Chromallocytes, Cell Repair Nanorobots for Chromosome Replacement Therapy"
(pgs 1-97)

Robin Hanson, James Hughes, Michael LaTorra, David Brin, Giulio Prisco
The Hanson-Hughes Debate on "The Crack of a Future Dawn"
(pgs 99-126)

An Ravelingien    
“Xenotransplantation and the harm principle: Factoring out foreseen risk”
(pgs 127-149)

David Koepsell  
“Individual and Collective Rights in Genomic Data: Preliminary Questions”
(pgs 151-159)

Woody Evans  
“Singularity Warfare: A Bibliometric Survey of Militarized Transhumanism”
(pgs 161-165)

Milan M. Cirkovic
Book review: Justina Robson’s Natural History
(pgs 167-170)



Open Source with a Bullet: John Robb’s Brave New War

by Jamais Cascio

The U.S. is Microsoft. Al Qaeda is Linux.

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Russia and Nanotechnology

by Mike Treder

Of the many questions that must be answered about molecular manufacturing, one of the most important is: Who will attain the technology first?

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The End of Conventional War

by Jamais Cascio

Few would dispute that the American military is, far and away, the most powerful conventional armed force on the planet, even as depleted as it is by the Iraq war. At the same time, few would dispute that this military force is, and by all signs will continue to be, insufficient to quell the insurgency in Iraq.

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Poll: Should there be a standing U.N. military force to enforce world law?

Grrr. I’m a strong supporter of strengthening (and democratizing) the United Nations, including the construction of a UN army. But it doesn’t look like most of you agree.

New poll: We become “posthuman” with…?



Book review: Mind Wars by Jonathan D. Moreno

by Moheb Costandi

The U. S. government has long understood that its military, hyperpowerful as it is, is woefully inadequate for present and future conflicts. Hence, in recent years, the U. S. Department of Defense has sought a radical transformation of its armed forces, with the overall aim of having an agile and technology-driven army that is better prepared for multiple, simultaneous wars than is the cumbersome leviathan of today.

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Nukes and Nanotech

by Mike Treder

At the “Future WMD” symposium I attended on Monday, I came across an interesting paper written by Peter Hayes, executive director of the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainable Development, which is described as “a non-governmental policy-oriented research and advocacy group.”

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Future WMDs

by Mike Treder

Yesterday I attended and took part in a “Future Weapons of Mass Destruction” symposium in Arlington, VA, sponsored by the Stanley Foundation and the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. One of the most interesting outcomes was a general agreement that the WMD acronym probably should be broadened to included Weapons of Mass Disruption as well as Destruction.

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Nano-Health, Nano-War

by Jamais Cascio

Lots of nano-news over the past week or two—and most of it good!

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Welcome to the Age of Weapons Containment

by George Dvorsky

Soon after the end of the Cold War, U.S. President George H. W. Bush declared that a new era had opened up in which he hoped that his country would become a “kinder and gentler nation.” Fifteen years later his proclamation appears naïve and gushing with idealism, but his optimism was understandable given the times; the Soviet Union had just collapsed with the Eastern Bloc going down with it, and all without a single shot fired from an American gun. The world, it seemed, had been rebooted and started anew.

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The U.S. plan for a 21st century nuclear blitzkrieg

by George Dvorsky

Strangely, the end of the Cold War, for whatever reason, ended the global impetus behind the development and enforcement of non-proliferation treaties for nuclear weapons. The current North Korean situation, and soon to be Iranian situation, is an example of inexorable technological globalization. It is also symptomatic of the current nation-state era, in which geographical regions claim political, economic and militaristic sovereignty; each country claims that it has the right to develop nuclear weapons and to protect itself.

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Existential Risks

by Nick Bostrom

Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards

Nick Bostrom, PhD
Chair, Board of Directors, Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University
 
 
[Published in the Journal of Evolution and Technology, Vol. 9, March 2002. First version: 2001]

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