(12-10-2020, 10:05 AM)F2d5thCav Wrote: These kind of reports have surfaced on and off for about 20 years now.
Some of it is true; things like night vision devices are fairly incredible now.
Land navigation is much more accurate as long as no one is diddling the navigation signal. Body armor offers more protection etc.
The downside is that all the tech makes for very expensive individual soldiers. This is one reason why Western forces strive very
hard to avoid casualty-intensive fights these days.
It doesn't always work; in one sense, the Vietnam War was a clash of Asian manpower versus American technology.
The Viets took very heavy casualties ... but they were willing to do so, and it won the war for them.
I doubt bionically enhanced soldiers will change the basic equation very much, other than to make already expensive modern
soldiers even more expensive...
Yeah I think you're right, it was probably just a fluff-piece.
After all, when they state:
"...This year Elon Musk unveiled a pig called Gertrude with a coin-sized computer chip in her brain, to demonstrate his
ambitious plans to create a working brain-to-machine interface...''
And then...
It doesn't bode well!!
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