Richard,

My memory may not serve me well, but when I susbcribed to TML it didn't say the discussion was confined to Traveller canon, whatever VERSION that is.

I don't have ANY goals for my membership of TML, like a gold membership card or 'most arrogant in fewest posts' :-)
Perpetual learning is part of my personality, and doesn't require goal setting.

A competent Squad NCO will keep track of the 8-11 individuals squad that only some of the time know what they are doing.
A lieutenant of 24 yo is expected to go into combat and keep track of at least his four platoon NCOs, and a few other individuals within the platoon. This 1:8-10 ratio is fairly constant within militaries, and across services. An air force pilot within a flight will be expected to keep track of the other three pilots and perhaps equal number of enemy in a 3D space.

I had twice written Late 22nd century; my bad writing?
If you are going to participate in a discussion of a book, at least trouble yourself to look it up on Wikipedia if you hadn't read it for two decades like myself.
Frankly its irrational that the Humanity's militaries would not have made ANY progress in developing battlespace awareness; just look at where they were in late 18th century.

Cyborg is a rather more defined term than you think, and I didn't mention any mechatronic integrations. If you look up the F-35 pilot helmet, you will see that most of the coding for what I suggest is 90% there, but just too expensive to be affordable for ground elements. I think exoskeletal augmentation would be the alternative to mechatronic integration since it doesn't require 'fixing' a perfectly healthy human soldier.

I prefer 'extraterrestrial culture' to an 'alien race'. Its so 50s.

Greg

On 24 June 2015 at 17:27, Richard Aiken <raikenclw@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 3:00 AM, Greg Chalik <mrg3105@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't take Traveller canon all that seriously any more.


And yet you're posting explosively to a mailing list dedicated primarily to precisely that.

What does that say about your goals in doing so, I wonder?

But then Traveller canon isn't really the issue here, anyway.

A "human" race that's so electronically interconnected from early childhood that its members can be expected to *naturally* use multiple prespectives competently during combat without intensive special training is actually an ALIEN race. If tech is that advanced a mere seven (7) years in the future - [You did say "2022," didn't you?] - then how can us poor meat humans possibly concieve what such cyborgs will or will not be capable of?

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Richard Aiken

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