We've Seen the Future, and It's Unmanned

Every so often in history, something profound happens that changes warfare forever. Next year, for the first time ever, the Pentagon will buy more unmanned aircraft than manned, line-item proof that we are in a new age of fighting machines, in which war will be ever more abstract, ever more distant, and ruthlessly efficient. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
3.3
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 16, 2009

The story glosses over the moral questions of robot killing machines. It seems a part of the pornography of war.

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