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This is the first time I've seen new tech and felt a twinge of fear instead of thinking "oh cool".
by kgin 6y ago
This is the first time I've seen new tech and felt a twinge of fear instead of thinking "oh cool".
- EGreg 6y agoPerhaps you’ve never seen this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA Compare 2:33 in the above fictional video to this real one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DjUdVxJH6yI https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DjUdVxJH6yI https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35726/the-army-has-unveiled-its-plan-for-swarms-of-electronic-warfare-enabled-air-launched-drones https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/35726/the-army-has-unv...
- narrator 6y agoThey already had a small drone war. Azerbaijan vs Armenia. Armenia had 1990s soviet stuff. Azerbaijan had recently purchased drone tech. Armenia got totally destroyed. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/attack-drones-dominating-tanks-as-armenia-azerbaijan-conflict-showcases-the-future-of-war/ar-BB1aoz3W https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/attack-drones-dominatin... These are previews of future wars, much like the wars in the decades before WW1 previewed the utter slaughter that was to come thanks to the new technological era of mechanized warfare.
- mtgx 6y agoMaybe that first video was TOO good. Governments seem to see this stuff and take it as something that it would be great to have/control, just like they did with the 1984 book.
- Blikkentrekker 6y agoI don't see how this is scarier than the nuclear bombs that already exist.
- EGreg 6y agoLess collateral damage. L Much more accessible to regular people. Ability to be anonymous and hide in a crowd of drones.
- cbogie 6y agoyeah exactly