{"id":2567,"date":"2008-01-18T20:19:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T20:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2567"},"modified":"2008-01-18T20:19:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T20:19:59","slug":"the-opposite-side-of-the-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=2567","title":{"rendered":"The Opposite Side of the COIN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Boyd<\/strong> used to preach that &#8220;Machines don&#8217;t fight wars, people do and they use their minds!&#8221;. Which is of course true but sometimes they use their minds to make new machines or use old ones in a novel way. So, as a counterbalance to the frequent discussions here\u00a0of 4GW, COIN and the mental and moral levels of war, how about some computer wizardry as a change of pace? LOL!<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/technologyinwartime.org\/node\/4\">About the Technology in Wartime Conference<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;This conference will explore how computer technology is used during war &#8212; both for the purposes of combat\/defense, as well as for human rights interventions into war-torn regions. Topics will include high tech weapons systems, cyberwarfare, autonomous aircraft, mobile robots, internet surveillance, anonymous communication, and privacy-enhancing technologies that aid human rights workers documenting conditions in war-torn countries and help soldiers communicate their experiences in blogs and e-mail.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our goal will be to consider the ethical implications of wartime technologies and how these technologies are likely to affect civilization in years to come. Ultimately we want to engage a pressing question of our time: What should socially-responsible computer professionals do in a time of high tech warfare? <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The proceedings will be broadcast live on the Web, and the presentations collected in book form online, released under a CC license, and made available to the public and policy makers looking for expert opinions on wartime technology issues during the election year&#8221;<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joi_Ito\">Joi Ito<\/a><\/strong> is one of the sponsors and the list of confirmed speakers includes <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.wired.com\/defense\/\"><strong>Noah Schachtman<\/strong> <\/a>of <strong><em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">WIRED<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/\"><strong>Bruce Schneier<\/strong> <\/a>. They could use a few more warriors in their geek and academic heavy\u00a0mix but it looks like it&#8217;s shaping up to be an excellent conference.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/home.earthlink.net\/~hipbone\/\">Charles Cameron<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Boyd used to preach that &#8220;Machines don&#8217;t fight wars, people do and they use their minds!&#8221;. Which is of course true but sometimes they use their minds to make new machines or use old ones in a novel way. So, as a counterbalance to the frequent discussions here\u00a0of 4GW, COIN and the mental and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[360,526,304,78,336,39,220,18,217,137,235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century","category-charles-cameron","category-defense","category-ideas","category-intellectuals","category-military","category-tech","category-war","category-warriors","category-web-20","category-wired"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}