This is the sort of idea that gets momentum just because people don't find it easy to recall counter examples on the basis the idea puts the problem: most people aren't mentally indexing tech on a weaponized or not basis. Therefore to validate the idea they need to do a scan of technologies in their memory, many give up and just accept it.
Fortunately as people here demonstrated there are a myriad of counter examples.
I look forward to someone challenging Brown regarding the weaponization of the dishwasher! And the zipper, velcro, food processors, air-conditioning, elevators, escalators, weighing scales, thermometers and wind turbines!
I’ll give it a shot. Zippers/velcro are critical for most modern military gear. Elevators are used to increase the storage capacity for warplanes on aircraft carriers. Thermometers (well, any temperature sensing device) are important for many weapons systems, guidance computers, etc. Wind turbines… hmm, the infamous Stuka siren was basically a wind turbine welded to the side of the plane!
What is the weaponization of a memory-foam mattress?
Of a dove-tail joint in woodworking?
> Derek Amato began playing the piano magnificently after nearly drowning in a swimming pool. It happened in 2006. Ten years later, a 16-year-old soccer player, Reuben Nsemoh, began speaking perfect Spanish after being knocked out by a ball.
Wow, this is a terrible interview. The interviewer repeatedly references his book Inferno. I like the Telegraph review of it, "Don't Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown", available here sans paywall: https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-f...
Most inventions related to music, food, clothing, children, entertainment, art, medicine, architecture...
AI is now the latest to spread propaganda, create deepfakes and alter narratives. While it has a few good things happening around, much of it feels like enabling the masses to create slop
This is the sort of idea that gets momentum just because people don't find it easy to recall counter examples on the basis the idea puts the problem: most people aren't mentally indexing tech on a weaponized or not basis. Therefore to validate the idea they need to do a scan of technologies in their memory, many give up and just accept it.
Fortunately as people here demonstrated there are a myriad of counter examples.
I look forward to someone challenging Brown regarding the weaponization of the dishwasher! And the zipper, velcro, food processors, air-conditioning, elevators, escalators, weighing scales, thermometers and wind turbines!
I’ll give it a shot. Zippers/velcro are critical for most modern military gear. Elevators are used to increase the storage capacity for warplanes on aircraft carriers. Thermometers (well, any temperature sensing device) are important for many weapons systems, guidance computers, etc. Wind turbines… hmm, the infamous Stuka siren was basically a wind turbine welded to the side of the plane!
(This is mostly facetious)
Going back in history more: aqueducts, looms, pottery, and baths were not really ever weaponized.
Humans weaponizing water flow (or lack there of) has been routinely used through out history.
Supposedly someone(s) tried to assassinate Miyamoto Musashi by trapping him in the bath
Pacemakers? MRI machines? Kidney Dialysis?
Allegedly the CIA has researched weaponizing pacemakers by hacking them at a distance.
But your point stands, and a different argument would be needed to refute it.
What is the weaponization of a memory-foam mattress?
Of a dove-tail joint in woodworking?
> Derek Amato began playing the piano magnificently after nearly drowning in a swimming pool. It happened in 2006. Ten years later, a 16-year-old soccer player, Reuben Nsemoh, began speaking perfect Spanish after being knocked out by a ball.
Tabloid bullshit.
Oh, soooo insightful.
Antibiotics
Expand your definition of warfare.
To something that isn’t actually warfare? I don’t understand the exercise.
Wow, this is a terrible interview. The interviewer repeatedly references his book Inferno. I like the Telegraph review of it, "Don't Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown", available here sans paywall: https://onehundredpages.wordpress.com/2013/06/12/dont-make-f...
Most inventions related to music, food, clothing, children, entertainment, art, medicine, architecture...
AI is now the latest to spread propaganda, create deepfakes and alter narratives. While it has a few good things happening around, much of it feels like enabling the masses to create slop
I don't think it's the masses creating slop. It's just throwing a megaphone to the slop makers.