On 10/22/06, Anna Taylor wrote:
Gregory, this is a very damaging responsive. Posthuman has nothing to do with "supersoldiers". Technology is not there to enhance war like behavior. What part of history made you think that?
Unfortunately history tells us that war drives technology forward. After the war, military tech developments find civilian uses. WWII produced a huge leap forward in many technologies. Iraq is continuing to drive military technology R&D. DARPA already has unmanned robot vehicles driving around. They want them flying around soon as well. The military R&D may not necessarily go in the direction of a superhuman-soldier. They may be aiming more at non-human automatic weaponry, backed up by enhanced humans. But I agree that huge military R&D expenditure (which already supports many, many research groups) is the place most likely to produce singularity-level events. You should be keeping your fingers crossed that the USA gets there first. BillK ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
