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Posted on 14 Jul 2003 at 16:39

Just six months after the Johannesburg Summit, another much-less-publicised meeting took place in London. Organised by the Royal Institute for International Affairs and Jane's Defence Weekly, it was a conference on future security trends and threats. At this meeting, Geoff Hoon, the Secretary of State for Defence, introduced a report that had been prepared by the MoD's Joint Doctrine and Concepts Centre. In it, they singled out the three areas of technology most likely to threaten Western society and military superiority: biotechnology, communications and IT and nanotechnology.

Now, it's not often that two such different bodies as the MoD and an environmentalist anti-globalisation pressure group find something to agree on. When they do, however, perhaps it's time to pay attention.

Author: Jack Weber