don't believe the hype

Sorry no show this week…taking some time off, be back on the 8th … here’s some databases to start you out. Spend some time going through these reports, if you got it.

Los Alamos Laboratory: Online Database

Google Directory: Top Futurist Predicitions Organizations/Sites (some good, some not)

Army War College: Research and Publications

Air Force University: Massive Data Collection

United Nations: Millenium Project
Read the U.N assessment for the year 3000…weird stuff

Today I’ll be highlighting some of the various white papers and think-tank reports regarding "Converging Technologies" and aligned scientific practices being discussed by Army Research, DARPA, NSF, NASA and more…

NIC 2001: Global Technology Revolution: Bio/Nano Trends

2002 NSF: Roco and Bainbridge: Converging Technologies for Improving Human Performance
The one that started it all…so to speak

2003 NSF: Roco and Bainbridge: Nanotechnology-Societal Implications Maximizing Humanity Benefit

2004 NIC: Mapping the Global Future (2020)

2005 NSF: Roco and Bainbridge: Managing Nano-Bio-Info-Cogno Innovations (The Sequel)

Is it naivety or deceit that causes all these scientist and transhumanist proponents to proclaim that these technologies will be used solely for virtuous purposes? Remember these very NSF scientists and private sector think-tanks also prepare similar reports for the use of NBIC in military engagements. Don’t forget Future Combat Systems.

2001 NASA: Future Strategic Issues of Future Warfare (2025) **READ THIS**

2004 British Report: Nano-Info-Bio-Cogno Shaping the Future of European Socities

2006 UK DCDC: Global Strategic Trends Programme 2007-2036
Why do they predict 30 years of escalating rioting and flash-mobs?

2004 NSF/NIH/Army Research/NASA/USDA: International R&D (Research and Development) in BioSensing
Look at the sponsors…BioSensing is an essential FCS technology

2007 NSF: Advancing Human Computing (aka Mind-Machine Interface)

2007 NSF/WTEP: International Assessments on R&D into Man/Computer Interfaces

1996 Loyola University pre-WTEC: Human Computer Interaction (yes….in 1996)

Here’s a good starting point for think-tanks involved in many future assessment projects

Association of Professional Futurists

FBI/Society of Police Futurists

Future Working Group

RAND Corporation Future Studies Program

Woodrow Wilson Center for Foresight in Governance

Xerox Palo Alto Research Center

IFTF Future Now

Center for Strategic and International Studies
CSIS: ‘Seven Revolutions’ Study

Here’s some interesting programs and papers regarding military Modeling and Simulation Programs and the idea of ‘virtual worlds’

2006 NSF: Modeling and Simulation Overview
They love us so much they want to know everything about us and how we act…

2007/2008 NSF: William Bainbridge: Virtual Nations

Accelerating Studies

Arden Center for Virtual Worlds (Indiana University) Synthetic World Initiative

Human Terrain Mapping
Shows the increased use of anthropologists contracted by the military to develop profiles of indigenous areas to be used in an operational capacity as well as being fed into modeling and simulation programs

2001 Parameters Magazine: Future Warfare and the Decline of Human Decision Making

Military Review Magazine: 4th and 5th Generation Warfare

There are groups out there trying to influence the debate regarding the potential for disaster inherent in these ‘converging technologies’

University of S. Carolina: IPSPR: The Use of Emergent Technologies for Enhancing Human Performance: Are We Prepared to Address the Ethical and Policy Issues?

Converging-Technologies.com

And finally….a word from the disgusting Malthusian, rapacious, neo-fuedal World Business Council for Sustainable Development…
WBCSD: Speech by Bjorg Stinson (2003)

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