Global Co-evolution of Informational and Combat Weapons in the Context of the Systemic Genesis of Humankind

an Informatics-Cybernetic View

Abstract

The global co-evolution of informational and military weapons (MW) is considered, from the standpoint of informatics-cybernetic modeling of the development of a self-controlling hierarchical-network system of Humankind, as one of the components of its systemic genesis. Using the stages of prevalence of information technology (IT) as a marker of this, it is possible to trace the main stages of the weapon forms that arise in this case: 1) IT of signal postures/sounds/movements "yard"/"family" with a characteristic size – the radius of the equivalent circle – up to 64 m) corresponds to such MW as fists, teeth; 2) IT of mimics/gestures (~1.86-0.123 million years ago, in a "settlement" up to 1 km in size) corresponds to primitive stone, bone and wooden MW; 3) IT of speech/language (~123-8.1 thousand years ago, in a "district" up to 15 km in size) corresponds to advanced stone, bone and wooden MW; 4) IT of writing/reading (~6.1 thousand years BC–~1446, in the "super-region" up to 222 km in size) corresponds to a metal cold, projectile, surface MW; 5) IT of replicating texts/printing (~1446-1946, in a "supercountry" up to 3370 km in size) corresponds to firearms, aviation, missile, underwater, chemical, atomic, nuclear MW; 6) IT of local computers (~1946-1979, on the planet Earth up to 51 thousand km in size) corresponds to biological, laser MW; 7) IT telecommunications/networks (~1979-1981 and beyond, in the Near-Earth Space up to 773 thousand km in size) corresponds to MW plasma, radiological, infrasound, kinetic, directed energy, cyber weapons; 8) promising nano-IT (~1981 and beyond, in the Intermediate Space up to 11.7 million km in size) corresponds to satellite, climatic, geophysical, genetic, psychotronic, cognitive MW, using artificial intelligence and robots. Starting from the third stage, subversive activities in the form of intelligence/espionage/deception of the enemy and the collapse of the economic, administrative and educational structures of its communities/societies act as an information weapon. It is noted that the Internet is today the most effective information weapon in the history of Humankind.