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We often forget that by the time the tech world is playing with something, it has perhaps already done the rounds in military. Automated sentry guns on the Kor
by srazzaque 8y ago
We often forget that by the time the tech world is playing with something, it has perhaps already done the rounds in military.
Automated sentry guns on the Korean DMZ have existed since around 2003, developed by a company that was associated with Samsung (not sure if it still is).
Therefore this isn't, quote, "at best, a few years away". Unless that quote was from around the year 2000.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGR-A1 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGR-A1
- orzig 8y agoAnd of course land mines have existed for decades longer, and “covered pit of spikes” centuries before that. No situation is totally new, though sometimes the equilibrium shifts so much that the top 3 driving factors in an environment are qualitatively different