Techcentricity and todays Armed Forces

[Ron Humphrey]

What does technology offer and in what context should it be approached.

Strength - Ability to do more, lift more, go further, protect better, maintain strength levels longer

Training - Bring training to areas where it might not normally be available on as large a scale, Reenforcement of basic drills through repetitive actions while conserving the amount of supplies necessary to do so, Develop teambuilding skillsets through interactive training, further develop finite skillsets in more technical arenas, more expansive incorporation of education into training thus hopefully encouraging (how to think vs what to think)

Communication - Ability to facilitate communications and associated operations on a much larger scale and more efficiently, Ability to monitor, disseminate, and discuss areas of consideration more swiftly and with less limitations on who is able to take part.

Speed - Achieve a variety of operations, movements, training, logistics, infrastructure considerations, more mobility in more types of environments.

Intelligence - More information, more digestable or able to be sifted through more quickly, faster recognition of possible actionable intelligence, wider audience through which to filter information for bad leads, simplification of decision making processes( note: not decisions themselves), enable more effective recognition of trends(this is very touchy stuff to those here)

All of these areas are examples of the thought processes which bring us the technologies we see. Where do the lines need to be drawn on which ones and in what ways they become more counter-productive than productive?

PS: I think EVERYONE is pretty much in agreement that the future cannot be predicted so that can probably be put aside for this particular thread.

Possibilities, Probabilities, Trends, Past is prologue; Great; Prediction better left to the card reader at the circus