{"id":122114,"date":"2021-04-30T09:23:21","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T16:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/space-force-chief-scientist-human-augmentation-is-now-necessary"},"modified":"2021-04-30T09:23:21","modified_gmt":"2021-04-30T16:23:21","slug":"space-force-chief-scientist-human-augmentation-is-now-necessary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/space-force-chief-scientist-human-augmentation-is-now-necessary","title":{"rendered":"Space Force Chief Scientist: \u201cHuman Augmentation\u201d Is Now Necessary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/space-force-chief-scientist-human-augmentation-is-now-necessary3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The head scientist of the US Space Force has an unusual idea for how to maintain military dominance: augmenting and upgrading human soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an Air Force Research Laboratory event, Space Force chief scientist Joel Mozer suggested that we\u2019re entering an era during which soldiers can become a \u201csuperhuman workforce,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/2021\/04\/29\/us-space-force-scientist-says-military-human-augmentation-necessary-14493027\/\" class=\"\">according to <em>Metro<\/em><\/a>, thanks to new tech including augmented and virtual reality, sophisticated AI, and nerve stimulation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the last century, Western civilization transformed from an industrial-based society to an information-based society,\u201d Mozer said, \u201cbut today we\u2019re on the brink of a new age: the age of human augmentation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head scientist of the US Space Force has an unusual idea for how to maintain military dominance: augmenting and upgrading human soldiers. Speaking at an Air Force Research Laboratory event, Space Force chief scientist Joel Mozer suggested that we\u2019re entering an era during which soldiers can become a \u201csuperhuman workforce,\u201d according to Metro, thanks [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6,8,1879],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-robotics-ai","category-space","category-virtual-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122114","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\/409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}