When Technology Outpaces Human Performance with Alan Kearney

About this episode

The episode discusses the challenges of human cognition keeping pace with advanced soldier systems, featuring defense expert Alan Kearney.

Send us Fan Mail Night vision keeps getting smarter, but our brains do not update on the same schedule. We’re joined by defense expert Alan Kearney, a former Irish Defence Forces officer who now works in European defense industry, to explore a problem that reaches far beyond goggles and helmets: what happens when advanced soldier systems outpace human cognition in the exact moments stress is highest? We start with the fundamentals of modern night vision and thermal fusion, then move into the...

People in this episode

Guest: Alan Kearney

Topics covered

• technology
• human cognition
• defense
• night vision
• stress
• advanced soldier systems

Keywords

• night vision
• thermal fusion
• human performance
• stress
• defense technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Irish Defence Forces, European defense industry

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