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Pentagon Scientists Discuss Cybernetic 'Super Soldiers' That Feel Nothing While Killing In Dystopian Presentation

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Pentagon Scientists Discuss Cybernetic 'Super Soldiers' That Feel Nothing While Killing In Dystopian Presentation

Global [email protected]English • 1 year ago

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The soldier of the future will be "flooded with pain-numbing stimulants," cybernetically enhanced, and, one official sort-of joked, must be eventually "terminated."

Archived version: https://archive.ph/qlxZr

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The world I’m living in is the science fiction of my youth.

If someone made a realistic movie about life in 2023 and presented it in the 70’s, it would flop for not being plausible.
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  Same here. That doesn’t change anything about presentations like these.

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