Here are some tips on what we can do to protect ourselves from becoming a digital soldier in someone else's warfare.
While the government pumps money and rhetoric into stimulus initiatives like Tech City, optimistically heralded by David Cameron as London's answer to Silicon Valley, the digital foot soldiers of the future are being neglected.
Experts in biology, design, engineering, materials science, medicine, and nanotechnology will address a variety of topics, including digital fabrication, soldier-related technologies, smart materials and biology, wearable technology, and the future of innovative substances.
In echoes of the Abu Ghraib scandal that unfolded from Iraq in 2004, the Army is scrambling to locate dozens of digital photographs that soldiers allegedly took of one another posing alongside the corpses of their victims.
In scenes showing squadrons of soldiers, digital extras were not used; instead, photography of real squadrons was cloned.
"As we look at a digital age, the soldier treats the computer as part of his weapon cache.
Ideally, Ramesh would like to collect digital brain images from soldiers and athletes before they enter combat or join highly physical sports activities.
Digital cameras have allowed soldiers and Marines to document their experiences and send the images home within hours, if not minutes, and to view pictures sent back by spouses and children.
