... international accords undermined the global community is faced with mounting challenges ranging from trade disputes to disruptions in the technological cooperation. This breakdown in diplomatic communication and international relations is starting to impact the technology of broader day-to-day communication, in particular the pace of transition of the world economy to 5G, as China’s rising technological capabilities in this area are starting to encounter headwinds from the broader US-China trade dispute. While ...
... But we believe that they offer a useful perspective on the challenges presented by emerging military technologies.
THE TASK FORCE ON COOPERATION IN GREATER EUROPE: ISTANBUL, 8-9 APRIL 2019
EMERGING MILITARY TECHNOLOGIES: TALKING POINTS
New military technology is inevitable and can be stabilising.
But destabilising military technologies are appearing and proliferating at speed.
This is serious. It is a very difficult systems problem. It carries rising risks of misjudgement, miscalculation, misinterpretation,...
... to say so. For this system, a hierarchy of platforms and applications in different languages — from cultural, social, national, and international institutions to law, medicine, politics — was created.
In the course of history, intelligence was a technology always in extremely short supply, and mass implementation of complex intelligence forms only became possible after the invention of mechanical movable type printing and related popular reading technology [
2
].
Widespread reading was exactly ...
... its unrivalled military
and technological superiority. Nonetheless, technologies that had previously
formed the foundation of the country’s military defense, such as high-precision
weapons, have spread throughout the world due to globalization and technology
transfer. As a result, the rivals of the United States have developed their own
capabilities that offer a progressively greater challenge to U.S. military
superiority.
To retain and expand its military edge in future, the
U.S. Department of ...
On December 1, Abishur Prakash launched a groundbreaking new book called “Next Geopolitics: The Future of World Affairs (Technology).” It looks at how new technologies like robotics, embryo editing, and food cloning will transform world affairs. Russia is featured multiple times in the book for its advances in artificial intelligence and robotics. Russia is in a period ...
...
Maria Gurova:
Cradle of Surveillance
The welfare state will demand protection from the swelling numbers of those wishing to become part of it, while conservatism will provide the conceptual justification for restrictions.
The opportunities opened up by technology in the fields of energy conservation, the prolongation of human life and the development of information and communication technologies cannot but inspire optimism. However, any kind of innovation provokes fear of uncontrolled or excessive use,...
... the
National Science Foundation Network
(NSF or NSFNET), which was somewhat similar to Russia’s
FidoNet
. This system became the infrastructure base and launch pad for the regional Internet, when on February 28, 1989 the Monterey Institute of Technology launched the NSFNET, albeit only on an inter-university scale
[1]
. The event was followed by
similar experiments by National Autonomous University of Mexico - UNAM
, the country's leading higher educational institution. In 1992, the system ...
In an interview with RIAC, Transkor-K Research and Development Center CEO
Svetlana Kamaeva
shared her insights on the activities of this innovative company, on the triumphs of Russian technology, on what is missing in the interactions between business and the state, and on the need to hold an Innovation Olympics. The interview was prepared for publication by RIAC Program Director Ivan Timofeev and RIAC correspondent Yaroslav Menshenin....
... problems) is imposed today on technological breakthroughs. In recent years, developed countries are reorienting their development strategies for the implementation of environmentally-oriented growth, one of the main components of which is "green" technology. Developing economies are becoming more and more involved in these processes. Russia needs to pay significantly more attention to these aspects of development, so as not to lose out on another crucial transformation of the global economy.
What ...
