Moving Towards Full Spectrum Dominance

Although semanticists say that ‘the map is not the territory’, within this digitized age the territory is increasingly becoming the map and the separation between the physical and the digitized rendition is blurring. In this context, to ‘know the map’ gives priority to intervene upon the physical.

In recent years many of us have been scrambling to get ‘on the Net’ and thus be ‘mapped’; within a few years we may find that living ‘off the Net’ will no longer be an option.

It is my argument that the future direction of present technological emergence is one that seeks to go beyond networks; rather it is towards ubiquitous technologies that offer a complete immersive (or rather ‘sub-mersive’) experience of a digitized environment.

With networks there is always the possibility of moving into the grey and illusive areas in-between.

These are the areas where the networks do not, or cannot, cover; neglected zones of poverty and risk, and insecure zones of warlord regions, and smuggling zones. With immersive technological mapping there may one day be no ‘spaces in-between’; the distinction between ‘in’ and ‘out’ dissolved; boundaries melted away under the digital gaze.

In this article I argue that the US military-industrial complex is attempting to gain full dominance over the complete information spectrum, including dominating the electro-magnetic spectrum and the Internet, in order to gain full total coverage for purposes ofcontainment and control.

Source: 

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/esp_sociopol_nwo56.htm