Our Guest Tom Horn
Here’s Discovery News, talking about part-human, part-machine transistors being built. Here’s the Danger Room: The Pentagon looks to breed immortal synthetic organisms. That’s what I referred to a moment ago. And I also want to say something about this one.
Top pentagon scientists fear brain-modified foes. Now you if could see the date on that, June 9, 2008 and you might wonder about why I would choose to include a slide that is 5 years old with these other newer slides. I do because this slide here has historic importance to me and that is that it was the first time that the public began to understand that among some of the top scientific advisory panels that give advice to the U.S. Pentagon and the Department of Defense among them there are those who believe that the human enhancement revolution represents the next arms race.
That’s how serious they are about it. In other words, in much the same way as the old Soviet Union competed with the United States for the build-up of nuclear arms in what was, what is now called the Cold War but it was the nuclear arms race. People like the Jason’s. Who are the Jason’s? It says they are the celebrated scientists on the Pentagon’s most prestigious scientific advisory panel and that’s about all you ever will know about them. I have a friend that has above top secret security clearance and he said forget it, brother, you’ll never know who the Jason’s are.
But suffice it to say they are among the intelligentsia and they believe that the United States may already have fallen behind. Now here’s the thing. We don’t know what they know. Why would the Jason’s be telling the Pentagon last year that you have until the end of this year to get ahead of this technology or you face falling, their words, unrecoverably behind in the race for human enhancement.
