With Russia putting its technology effort into blocking signals to controlled drones, the U.S. Army has become more interested in autonomous drones able to take orders and carry out their assignment on their own. They are also interested in improving the ability of drones to enhance “situation awareness” by better networking the surveillance systems of independently functioning machines.
I predict a future where restrictions on fully automatic and semi-automatic weapons will be a concern of the past and the government will instead do all it can to keep fully autonomous out of the hands of private citizens leaving only semi-autonomous units for personal use.
Autonomous killer micro drones operated by the bad guys is a central feature of my book “FairPoint.”
Gee, this gives me warm fuzzy feelings all over.
If our military and our adversaries become so technologically advanced to the point of parity, the citizens who feed their governments and military will become the primary target.
Lincoln, Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Churchill, Eisenhower, Hitler, Stalin and Truman employed every means against civilian populations to get their adversaries to capitulate.
History, if rewritten or not, will be repeated.
If only Radio Shack could have held on longer….
Future Clinton, and other leftist, mostly anti-gun, climate change, and capitalism hits, as well as spying on freedom loving folks clinging to their guns and religion (Muslims excluded) can soon be carried out by Drones. Those educated in public, mostly inner city schools that can’t read directions, will still have to riot, and shoot while holding their hand guns sideways.
Well, at least I have a crap ton of trap shot that’ll come in handy.
In the Same way that I Despise Micro Insects , I Fear Micro Drones !
Shit Needs to Be Big Enough to be Shot and Destroyed or Smashed !
Two Books that prove the Axiom: Today’s Science Fiction is tomorrow’s Science Fact:
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson
Earth by David Brin.
Pretty soon there will be a whole class of drone pilots that fly swarms of drones over the battle field, the city, your house.
I like David Brin’s take on the net and the omnipresence of video recording of everything in the human world.
Anything that makes our guys superior I am for.
But I fear as soon as they figure out how to get a single cell to report a binary message that can be read outside the body, one’s bowels will not be private anymore
☢ Autonomous drones are easy ☢
I.C. chips / hard-drives run programs hard installed. They need charging? Run re-charge program to return to base, self-plug in automatically.
Run mission 1? Send signal, drones follow program instructions w/o continuous satellite signals. It’s as simple as running any other program with a click of a button.
Return to base, upload mission 2.
Pheasant loads would do just fine on the home front. Theyz cheep.
Guess we need to start looking into home-made EMP grenades and bottle-rockets …
just sayin …
izlamo delenda est …