As the great Albert Einstein said, "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." I completely agree with this statement because as technology improves, as humans become better equipped and able to kill one another more efficiently and easily, eventually, with all the wars and fighting going on within this world, a nuke could wipe out an entire populous. It might not even be a nuke, it might be some new technology that could get out of hand during wartime and take the lives of many.
I just recently watched a film entitled "Waking Life" which supports Einstein's Quote and sums up my thinking quite concisely.
"But that's only the beginning of the evolutionary cycle... because as the next cycle proceeds, the input is now this new intelligence. As intelligence piles on intelligence, as ability piles on ability, the speed changes. Until what? Until you reach a crescendo in a way... could be imagined as an enormous instantaneous fulfillment of human and neo-human potential. It could be something totally different." (Like World War IV)
Basically, this quote is saying, we evolve. We get more intelligent. The more intelligent we become, the faster we evolve and eventually we will reach some sort of peak or 'crescendo.' And, I believe that this 'crescendo' will be some sort of new technology that will backfire or in the case or war technology, do exactly what it was designed to do: kill a lot of people, quickly, and efficiently.
In the article I read from Popular Science, the Air Force is working toward an advanced type of weaponry that targets the human brain. Not only will this technology allow for the Air Force "to modulate an airman’s emotional state but it strives to use mind-altering drugs or biochemical pathway techniques" to essentially create super soldiers.
On the flip side, this new 'bioweapon' technology could "include methods to degrade enemy performance and artificially overwhelm enemy cognitive capabilities.”
All of these new bio-weapon technologies, weapon improvements, and advanced wartime strategies, make wars easier to win, faster to fight, and make killing more efficient. And as the 'Waking Life' quote states, a crescendo is bound to happen and in my mind it WILL be a World War IV as this wartime technology drastically and exponentially improves.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0243017/
With nuclear weapons, it wouldn't even have to be a world war. I read in some Discover magazine that even a small scale nuclear conflict (like, say, India and Pakistan) would raise enough ash and dust to cause a nuclear winter.
ReplyDeleteWhen is this "bioweapon" predicted to come out/ be created? It's scary to see that technology will be able make better soldiers then training camp.
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