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Yet we reckon with our own destructive capabilities in extraordinary acts of hope - filled creativity: we collect the DNA of vanishing species in a «frozen ark,» equip orangutans with iPads, and create wearable technologies and synthetic species that might one day outsmart us.
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Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.
The MP explained that he was on the side of the «innocent» people being caught up in the violence and encouraged a response that would show the UK's intolerance of such behaviour: «The only way of stopping someone who continues to be violent, destructive, murderous and surgical in the way that they carry out their actions against innocent people is to stop them being able to have the capabilities to be able to do it and I think that's what we're targeting and I would hope that the Prime Minister and the President of the United States will be targeting the weapons of war and by doing so taking away the ability to wage war.»
His study of machines arguably reflected both a delight in scientific advancement, and a fear of the destructive capabilities of technology, in the wake of the nuclear stand - off and America's war in Vietnam.
This exhibition explores the creative and destructive capabilities inherent in the relationship between the synthetic and the sublime.
There is little evidence of a trend in the TC frequency, however there are some indications of a trend in the destructive capability of the TCs.