Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
U.S. Army to Game Designers: Take Out Vulerabilities to Technology
November 28th, 2006They’re making warfighting doctrine internally consistant with the other fallacies of technological society. They’re not learning from Their mistakes in Iraq. The Myth of the Machine is so tantalizing, it blinds even the most power mad psychopaths, and opens them up to strategic defeat. That’s good news. In the early battles of the Rise of […]
‘Big Brother’ Cameras Listen for Fights
November 25th, 2006Via Cnet. This is the key sentence: The sound system also means fewer people can monitor more cameras in surveillance centers, Vorst added. They want autonomous mode weapons and surveillance technology more than anything. They want low level operators out of the loop so increasing amounts of control can be centralized into a smaller number […]
A Smarter Computer to Pick Stocks
November 25th, 2006This is a funny article about black box trading systems, along with quotes from crackpot, technology fetishist and (would you believe?) hedgefund manager, Ray Kurzweil. Sure, “invest” your money in a half cocked bum fight between super computers! Via NY Times: Ray Kurzweil, an inventor and new hedge fund manager, is describing the future of […]
Global Hawk to Fly 1st Mission Over U.S.
November 20th, 2006Via Breitbart: They’ve become a fixture in the skies over Iraq and Afghanistan, a new breed of unmanned aircraft operated with remote controls by “pilots” sitting in virtual cockpits many miles away. But the Air Force’s Global Hawk has never flown a mission over the United States. That is set to change Monday, when the […]
