Sunday, April 5, 2009

P.W Singer: Military Robots



At the beginning of the Iraq war the United States had a handful of "air drones' now they have 5,000.

We had 0 "Ground Systems" now we have 10,000.

In 25 year the robots will be a billion time more powerful (moores law twice as much memory, half the size)

America's low scores in science and math and reliance on China for hardware and India for software.

If there is no cost of war (human life) we will be more likely to engage in it?

You Tube brings the war front to our homes via drone. The videos are reffered to as "war porn" set to music and glorified.

Cubical Warrior: Participates in war but then returns home to family. It's like a video game.

"OOPS" moments, software glitches result in death.

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