Mobile Magazine » warfare http://www.mobilemag.com Gadgets, Smartphones, Android Tablets, iPhone, iPad and all the latest tech you'd expect. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:55:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 The Future of Warfare Is Inside Your Head (Video) http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/02/08/the-future-of-warfare-is-inside-your-head-video/ http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/02/08/the-future-of-warfare-is-inside-your-head-video/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:28:43 +0000 Michael Kwan http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=128961 More specifically, warfare could very easily slip into the realm of neurological warfare, in case it hasn't already done so. An enemy is much easier to defeat when he's hallucinating about bugs crawling all over his body.

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]]> Military developments often find themselves deployed among civilians, eventually. GPS is a good example of that. It’s also true that academic developments can also have applications relevant to military, and that’s a risk that the Royal Society is urging the academic community to recognize.

More specifically, warfare could easily slip into the realm of neurological warfare, in case it hasn’t already done so. An enemy is much easier to defeat when he’s hallucinating about bugs crawling all over his body. Similarly, biological and chemical warfare in the form of drugs could have the ramifications of impaired judgement, perception, or all kinds of other things in your adversary.

And it’s not like the military would be necessarily adverse to using something on their own soldiers too. Drugs that increase alertness and reduce the perception of fatigue could prove quite useful (albeit possibly kinda scary). They discuss blocking memories, which could be effective for PTSD victims. The Royal Society also talks about “neural interface systems” (NIS) that would allow weapons to be controlled by the human mind.

By identifying active military research into neuroscience, the Royal Society paints a future of warfare influenced by neuroscience applications as a very real possibility. As well as neuroscience’s massive potential for benign medical applications, the Royal Society is seeking to raise awareness among the scientific community of “hostile” applications.

Check out the video below for more. That mind-reading computer could very well be the next logical step.

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]]> http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/02/08/the-future-of-warfare-is-inside-your-head-video/feed/ 0 Fault Lines: Rise of the Machines in War (Video) http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/01/28/fault-lines-rise-of-the-machines-in-war-video/ http://www.mobilemag.com/2012/01/28/fault-lines-rise-of-the-machines-in-war-video/#comments Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:29:34 +0000 Michael Kwan http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=128337 We're in the middle of another huge revolution when it comes to warfare and it has to do with the increased use of robots and unmanned drones. Instead of sending the actual soldier into the line of fire, you send a bot to do the job

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Going back to ancient warfare, it was all about hand-to-hand combat. We saw advances in technology there as people were able to develop better swords, clubs, axes and so on. Then, projectile warfare entered the picture with weapons like the bow and arrow; that changed things. Then things radically changed again with the introduction of guns and cannons.

We’re in the middle of another huge revolution when it comes to warfare and it has to do with the increased use of robots and unmanned drones. Instead of sending the actual soldier into the line of fire, you send a bot to do the job and, to some extent, you give the bot the autonomy to make its own decisions. That’s good and bad, depending on your perspective.

Embedded below is a fascinating documentary on how military drones are changing war, narrated by Josh Rushing. He is a 14-year veteran of the US Marines and is currently a journalist. Your propaganda alarms should be on alert, as with any of these kinds of programs with a clear agenda, but it’s fascinating to watch nonetheless and well worth the 24 minutes of your time. Is Skynet really right around the corner?

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