The Human Behavior Podcast

When Technology Outpaces Human Performance with Alan Kearney

April 21, 2026·1h 33m
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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...

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