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By "softwareization" I mean the transfer of the difficulty of making weapons from software to hardware. Programmers and programming knowledge is far more widely
by ermir 5y ago
By "softwareization" I mean the transfer of the difficulty of making weapons from software to hardware. Programmers and programming knowledge is far more widely available that specialized hardware or techniques. We've already seen this process in many fields of business with great success, so it's no wonder that it would come to warfare as well.
- bb88 5y agoAnd I don't see how that changes anything. I just see this as a distinction without a difference. People have written software to target buildings, soldiers, tanks, planes, missiles, etc. This is done via radar, heat signatures, cameras -- and software already. It's not such a big change really. I believe the thing you really have to worry about is the proliferation of NBC. It's easier to drop a nerve agent in a war zone than it is to figure out how to make an explody drone to kill your enemies and not you, say.