{"id":117268,"date":"2020-12-17T17:25:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T01:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/france-says-its-working-on-bionic-supersoldiers-because-everybody-else-is-doing-it"},"modified":"2020-12-17T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T01:25:10","slug":"france-says-its-working-on-bionic-supersoldiers-because-everybody-else-is-doing-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/france-says-its-working-on-bionic-supersoldiers-because-everybody-else-is-doing-it","title":{"rendered":"France Says It\u2019s Working on Bionic Supersoldiers Because Everybody Else Is Doing It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/france-says-its-working-on-bionic-supersoldiers-because-everybody-else-is-doing-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The French military is starting exploratory work on the development of bionic supersoldiers, which officials describe as a necessary part of keeping pace with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n<p>A military ethics committee gave its blessing to begin developing supersoldiers on Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-55243014\">according to <em>The BBC<\/em><\/a>, balancing the moral implications of augmenting and altering humanity with the desire to innovate and enhance the military\u2019s capabilities. With the go-ahead, France joins countries like <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/us-army-developing-tech-reads-soldiers-minds\">the U.S.<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/russia-super-soldiers-telepathy\">Russia<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/us-official-china-testing-biologically-enhanced-supersoldiers\">China<\/a> that are reportedly attempting to give their soldiers high-tech upgrades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French military is starting exploratory work on the development of bionic supersoldiers, which officials describe as a necessary part of keeping pace with the rest of the world. A military ethics committee gave its blessing to begin developing supersoldiers on Tuesday, according to The BBC, balancing the moral implications of augmenting and altering humanity [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1499,30,9,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cyborgs","category-ethics","category-military","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}