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human operators) wearable computer technologies and implanted
computer technologies. We have
largely achieved the former and
while we have early achievements
in the latter - we have increased
confidence that we will move
apace to new levels of cyborg states
of human/machine symbiosis for
a variety of purposes and outcomes. We continue now to focus
upon our example of the human
information appliance as a intelligence professional.

Tactical and Operational
Intelligence in the
Battlespace for the Human
Information Appliance

Fig. 2. See [17].

designed to be easy to use,
and to fade into the background. They are poised to
be taken for granted [5].
Don Norman at M.I.T., the
conceptual thinker and developer
force behind the early evolution of
the concept of information appliances figures heavily in our thinking about IAs in intelligence work
from here forward. For example,
the phrase poised to be taken for
granted from number three above
lends itself nicely to the operational concept of stealth in a tactical intelligence environment as we
will see. Information appliances
are a fundamental component to
most modern critical infrastructures, and our innovation here of
the human kind, results in no different need for our best understanding of their operational systems
for the purpose of protection in
both design for redundancy and
resilience in future threat event
environments.
We have been witnessing a
steady advancement in the development of IAs in terms of (for our
purposes) three important areas
that are consistent with the logic
presented within the Raskin/Norman/Bergman framework. First,
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computational power proceeds
apace. Second, miniaturization
likewise has proceeded as needed.
Third, as is the main criteria for
excellence in IA development,
simple human interface and userexperience4 also has accelerated
as is evidenced by the examples of
the products of Apple (iPhone) and
Google (prototype - Google's Project Glass) [6].
It is important for us to pause
and note the significance of these
timely technological advances in
order to match up the heuristic
forecasts for human/machine interfaces at the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) workshop
in 2004 and how the marketplace is
delivering products for consumers
(civilian and military) today. We
do not attempt to claim prescience
- but we do seek to identify trends
that are observable to experts who
follow these fields and their corresponding data. The progression
of our last two presentations in
2004 to the National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) were (for
4
According to Norman's logic of information
appliances - and best exemplified in the userexperience of Apple's products - this is a reference to the requirement of IAs in that the device
must not get in the way of user's task.

Here we invoke the concept of
the battlespace per Libicki as the
operational environment for this
kind of intelligence entity in the
form of a human information
appliance (HIA) schema for valueadded outcomes in what we refer
to the intelligence space. This is
accomplished by borrowing conceptually from DARPA developed
legacy and future digital (Artificial
Intelligence-AI) and analog (Intelligence Augmentation IA) systems5
(described below) - as extrapolated
in the HIA section of this paper. The
merging of theoretical and empirical processes in the four areas of a)
exponential computational engineering (exaflop - zettaflop and
ultimately yottaflop to produce
deep event models) [8]; b) cybernetic processes and applications
(human-machine fusion and the
legacy of AugCog6); c) network

Jonathan D. Moreno, Mind Wars: Brain Science
and the Military in the 21st Century[7] - where
he discusses philosopher Peter Skagesatad's
article in Semiotica on Turing (digital/AI) versus Bush (analog/IA) science and technology -
suggesting the latter may be on the rise as a better
expression system of the workings of the human
mind.
6
Again borrowing from Moreno's Mind Wars [7]
detailed description of DARPA programs - AugCog - or Augmented Cognition - is the kind of
human-machine cybernetics that we seek to employ in the HIA schema for intelligence purposes.

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