Weapons

Traditionally consisting of projectiles and or edge weapons, latterly extended to ballistics and information.

More than any other field of endeavor, the production of armaments has inspired creativity and innovation in the psyche of the human race. If humanity put one percent of the effort into tackling social issues that it does into inventing ways to kill and control, planet Earth would have become a type two civilisation before the Pyramids were built.

Many deviations have occurred throughout the human development lifecycle in terms of benevolent interaction. Currently we see a shift in orientation from control via the Military Industrial Complex to control via the Medical Industrial Complex. The weapons of choice vary and the battle grounds are relocated. The war is conducted in the most convenient way for the majority of the interested parties and increasingly, the most profitable information weapons are the humans themselves. 

The most dangerous thing on Earth is someone who can't think for themselves