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DO THE BENEFITS OUTWEIGH THE HARMS? As digitalization and AI spiral out of control in an ever-expanding web of technology gone rogue, perhaps it’s time to consider whether the harms outweigh the hoped for and hyped about benefits. Will cell towers and antennas permeating our cities, thousands of satellites filling our skies, and an ocean teeming with technology make for more fulfilling lives? Will the internet of things, smart cities, smart dust, transhumanism, and billions of sensors, cameras, facial recognition technology and other forms of biometrics squeezing from our world every “byte” of data imaginable, provide overall benefit or harm…

Wired technologies such as fiber or coaxial cable are faster, more reliable, resilient, energy-efficient, and more easily defended from cyber-attacks. Above all, wired technologies are significantly less hazardous to our health and would better ensure the survival of other life forms with whom we share this precious planet. Without measured and mindful guidance from the collective will of us all, the military industrial Big Tech media complex will continue to corral us down a fast track into extinction. But with us at the helm, we can create a future we can live with. A future where… In short, a world where the pursuit of ‘faster’,…

Systems warfare relies on a vast infrastructure of satellites, cell towers, antennas, sensors, and cameras that “vacuum up” as much data as possible. The sheer quantity of data is more than humans can make sense of and that wireless bandwidth can manage. So, the data is aggregated, sorted and sifted through by Artificial Intelligence (AI) to determine what is of value, how it can be combined, and to whom it should be directed. Command and Control (still predominantly manned by humans but increasingly being outsourced to machines) then sets the parameters for the data it will need for defense or…