Global deployment of "proactive" technology

Reimagining Coronavirus in 3D as a Metaphor of Global Society in Distress (Part #10)

[Parts: First | Prev | Next | Last | All] [Visuals] [Links: To-K | From-K | From-Kx | Refs ]

Of obvious relevance in the case of technology is the manner of its global deployment and the various constraints which become evident in terms of efficiency and efficacy. These are more obvious at the regional level in the deployment of "sites" -- whether in the form of supermarkets, wholesale depots, or manufacturing facilities. In terms of marketing and operational research, the mathematical optimization is determined with respect to catchment areas. In human geography, this is the area from which a city, service or institution attracts a population that uses its services. The matter is more complex when the "area" is the globe as a whole.

Attention has been devoted to the global deployment of resources by Buckminster Fuller in terms of a polyhedral configuration which has notably taken the form of a World Game. (Critical Path, 1981; Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth, 1969).

Of curious relevance to this argument is a form of complementarity between the highly secretive nature of some research on viruses and the highly secretive nature of global deployment of technology. Just as the first is a feature of biological warfare (of which the coronavirus may well be an example), the second is a feature of global militarisation.

Global deployment of nuclear missile launch sites: In the military quest for full-spectrum dominance to achieve global hegemony, considerable importance is clearly attached to the deployment of nuclear missile sites. The form of such missiles is clearly reminiscent of the defensive "spikes" of which various examples are given above. The efficient global deployment is necessarily further constrained by political arrangements.

As noted by Hans M. Kristensen and Robert S. Norris (Worldwide deployments of nuclear weapons, 2017, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 73, 2017, 5):

As of mid-2017, we estimate that there are nearly 15,000 nuclear weapons located at some 107 sites in 14 countries. Roughly, 9400 of these weapons are in military arsenals; the remaining weapons are retired and awaiting dismantlement. Approximately 4150 are operationally available, and some 1800 are on high alert and ready for use on short notice. By far, the largest concentrations of nuclear weapons reside in Russia and the United States, which possess 93 percent of the total global inventory (Kristensen and Norris, 2013). In addition to the seven other countries with nuclear weapon stockpiles (Britain, France, China, Israel, India, Pakistan, and North Korea), five nonnuclear NATO allies (Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Turkey) host about 150 US nuclear bombs at six air bases.

The long-articulated fears of simultaneous worldwide use of nuclear devices -- deliberately or by accident -- can therefore be related to the pattern articulated above.

Global constellations of communication and military satellites: Attention is currently aroused by the massive deployment of constellations of satellites, purportedly for communication purposes. There is obvious confusion with regard to the deployment of constellations of satellites for military purposes -- readily conflated with those claimed to be for communication purposes, given the dual use possibilities of the latter. Given the number of satellites involved -- tens of thousands -- the geometry of their configuration is clearly an important consideration, as discussed separately (Symbolic Disconnection from the Stars and the Universe? Surreptitious global implementation of full-spectrum dominance and shielding, 2019) and more speculatively (Satellite Constellation and Crown Chakra as Complementary Global Metaphors? 2020).

Whether as a military or a communication configuration, it is readily comprehensible that a configuration of satellites serves both offensive and defensive purposes -- an analogue to the pattern of spikes discussed in the examples above.

In the above-mentioned spirit of "circling the wagons", the current implementation of a space force by various nations is a natural extension of satellites on their own. It may well be seamlessly integrated with any such configuration in 3D. It is recognized as one dimension of the militarisation of space.

In apparent contrast to the "militarisation" of space, the key role of communication satellites in enabling the global manipulation of public opinion -- whether overt or secretive -- is readily comprehensible. This can be explored in terms of panic containment, propaganda, "psychic numbing" and "dumbing down" -- as potential features of global information warfare, psychological warfare and memetic warfare. The latter is understood as involving the propagation of memes on social media through Platform Weaponization.

As has been argued in terms of precautionary strategies in anticipation of hypothetical extraterrestrials, and in science fiction, any such global configuration would potentially serve in the early detection of "space invaders" (as well as Earth crossing asteroids). The "shielding effect" has long been a feature of popular imagination with respect to any "star wars" scenario.

Global configuration of EMF towers -- Tesla towers and coils? The surface deployment of radio towers and arrays to ensure "global coverage" can be recognized as a pattern anticipating any configuration satellites, with communication functions increasingly integrated with such satellites. Arguably again, the form of those towers can be recognized in terms of the patterns of spikes noted above -- appropriately configured.

Potentially more intriguing are suggestions regarding the possibility of other functions associated with towers with some kind of EMF capacity. These range from the wireless distribution of energy to the functions attributed to High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), most notably by conspiracy theorists.

Especially significant in this regard are the inventions of Nikola Tesla, and the secrecy and conspiracy surrounding their later development. For example, as illustrated below, Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917), also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early experimental wireless transmission station designed and built by Nikola Tesla in New York in 1901–1902. Tesla intended to transmit messages, telephony and even facsimile images across the Atlantic to England and to ships at sea based on his theories of using the Earth to conduct the signals.

Could such a tower, and the principles on which it operated, be understood as a protoype of human "spike technology"?

Indication of potentially relevant innovations by Nikola Tesla
Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917)	Tesla's Magnifying "Apparatus for transmitting electrical energy" U.S. Patent 1,119,732	Tesla coil: Electrum sculpture (1998), the world's largest such coil. Builder Eric Orr is visible sitting inside the hollow spherical high voltage electrode.
Unknown author / Public domain	Nikola Tesla / Public domain	Joe Decker / CC BY-SA

The possible psychosocial implications are discussed separately (Engendering a Psychopter through Biomimicry and Technomimicry: insights from the process of helicopter development, 2011; Reimagining Tesla's Creativity through Technomimicry: psychosocial empowerment by imagining charged conditions otherwise, 2014). In the latter it took the form of a separate section (Insight into global dynamics through Tesla's focus on the sphere, 2014). So framed, and as demonstrated by Tesla, it can then be asked whether the failure to manage positively and negatively charged conditions appropriately, results in the dangerously uncontrollable "sparks" so characteristic of society.

[Parts: First | Prev | Next | Last | All] [Visuals] [Links: To-K | From-K | From-Kx | Refs ]