Between 2008 and 2014, the US government funded nearly $ 1 billion in synthetic biology research. From 2012 onwards, most of the relevant funds came from the infamous DARPA and other military budgets. Why does the US army love synthetic biology so much (too)? It has good purposes… It wants, for example, to eradicate malaria by eradicating mosquitoes. It targets also other insects that are seen as dangerous… How will it eliminate them? By placing “mosquito coils” everywhere? No. By developing (it declares…) genetic extermination techniques. So to speak: it will make them sterile so that they do not reproduce. …
No prisoners!
The news is of american origin; it obviously serves american purposes. (The news is that) the chinese army that invests in the technological upgrade of the infantry, has made, among other things, helmets that can be blown up from a distance, by the administration… According to this proof of chinese barbarism, if the administration deems that a marine has been seriously injured and can not be saved or that he is in danger of falling into the hands of the enemy, it presses the button and the helmet tears the skull to pieces. According to the american super-spies, even the …
In the meantime…
The technological warfare (war of technological supremacy) continues with undiminished intensity… And it’s not just the playful adventure of human thought lying on the counter. Neither we nor you (the majority, at least!) are ready for the next technological revolution that is already taking shape. We are not talking about the 4th – which will also be out of our imagination. We are talking about the 5th, the quantum!!
Introduction to biosecurity
After the attacks on the Twin Towers, on September 11, 2001, the world entered a “new normality”. On the occasion of these attacks, new practices and technologies of surveillance and repression were installed throughout the spectrum of public and private space, which nullified the civil liberties granted until then. The “war on terror” imposed emergency mobilization for the purposes of managing the “Islamic threat”, which (emergency mobilization / urgent need) was then made permanent. Always in the name of “freedom”…
High tech sharpening
Last Saturday, two systemic media outlets, Wall Street Journal and Financial Times, published a u.s department of state order to electronic chip manufacturers: it is forbidden to sell to chinese smic (semicodnuctor manufacturing international corp) without a state license. Smic is the biggest manufacturer of chips in china, and although it has improved both its technological base and production, it still depends on imports of both machines (of chips production) and quantities of chips. This time the u.s ban doesn’t use the excuses of the style against Huawei (“the chinese will spy on us”) but shows the center of the …