by Dan | Mar 29, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence and Global Power, Controlling Intelligent Substrate, Managing the Transhuman Transition
During the Second Opium War, in 1860, a combined force of French and British troops trampled Old Summer Palace (known in Chinese as Yuanming Yuan 圆明园; 圓明園) on their way to Beijing. The relatively primitive military forces of the then Qing dynasty could do little to...