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The prospect of an entirely robotic war is interesting to me. No more bloodshed, the winner is determined by the amount of technological progress they manage to
by terabytest 13y ago
The prospect of an entirely robotic war is interesting to me. No more bloodshed, the winner is determined by the amount of technological progress they manage to achieve and put into use. Wars could actually become somewhat useful for humanity as means to improve technologies (they already do, but the death toll that comes with them is kind of a shitty side-effect).
- harrygold 13y agoA war with "no more bloodshed"? There's no such thing. To quote George S. Patton, "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."
- JulianMorrison 13y agoIt won't any time soon be robots vs. robots, because that (with our current tech level) would imply superpowers fighting, and they'd just skip the battlefield and go straight to ICBMs. Or not fight. What it will be, is robots vs. guys with AK 47s, robots vs. third-world armies. It would look a whole lot like "Terminator", and the bloodshed would be apocalyptic.
- bcoates 13y agoI'm not even that optimistic, it will almost certainly be robots vs. civilians simultaneous with guys with AK-47s and car bombs vs the other side's civilians. Nobody's going to intentionally get in a stand-up shooting match with robot, unless the robots are so expensive and impractical that you can win a war of attrition against them by bankrupting the country building them.
- mc32 13y agoAs I mentioned in another reply, this could work very well in peacekeeping missions. I can buy into UN sanctioned missions, for example. Send in a robot army to stop the internal fighting --this would make (a United) nations less reluctant to go in and stop civil wars and genocide.
- espinchi 13y agoSure these robots won't bleed, but those human beings that get the bullets will. And, for quite a few years, I don't think it's about robots vs robots.
- gngeal 13y agoNo more bloodshed, the winner is determined by the amount of technological progress they manage to achieve and put into use. Both sides will simply send an adequate amount of people into disintegration booths. No blood necessary.