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neuropharmacology, new ways – which are sometimes as far-fetched as the one of John Channon – are being studied in order to reach this goal. Numerous armies are now aiming to increase combatants’ cognition and their capacities to learn and train as well as developing human–machine interfaces to ameliorate their psychological and physical weaknesses. In many respects, these science-fiction-esque developments raised the prospect of a ‘Human
, sometimes with terrible and harmful consequences for the soldiers. Nowadays, this trend has reached a science-fiction-like nature through the development and use of body armours and medicines that will soon allow service personnel to perform their duty in similar fashion to Iron Man, Batman, or Captain America. However, before discussing the problems associated with the question of super soldiers, it is first necessary to
is only one of the many dramatic changes that will forever change the way our wars are fought; the development of super soldiers may be only the tip of the iceberg with regard to the role of technology in war. Thus we cannot ignore the challenges associated with the development of autonomous weapons, which have until now existed only in Hollywood movies and science fiction. As in the case of super soldiers, fiction is about
‘cyberspace’, once coined in science fiction for ‘cybernetic space’, has a long history of describing a virtual and so-called separate space from reality. ‘Cyberspace’ has been largely criticised for being too vague and misleading (e.g., Cohen 2007 : 227; Thiedeke 2004 ) and was even called ‘dead’ by Fadi Chehadé, president of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) (Küchemann
the world seen in movies like U-571 where, in a rescripting of history, an American submarine captures a German enigma code machine and turns the tide of the sea war (actually it was a British submarine). Even science fiction movies such as Independence Day , Deep Impact or Armageddon express the view that America is the one nation which can save the world from catastrophe. The official