"Associate Professor Charles Higgins of the University of Arizona predicts people will be using hybrid computers using a combination of living tissue and technology within 10 to 15 years."

Right on track for Ghost in the Shell circa 2032.

Change We Can Believe In: New funding for directed energy pain weapons projects to make them portable and add "sophisticated automated target-tracking"

China is becoming more like us in very visible ways (Starbucks, Hooters, cellphones that are cooler than ours), and we are becoming more like China in less visible ones (torture, warrantless wiretapping, indefinite detention, though not nearly on the Chin

It typically takes at least a generation before the social impact of a ubiquitous new technology becomes obvious.

The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on U.S. National Security and
Military/Commercial Concerns with the People's Republic of China