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Yunus
- theres actually a lot in this...The technology used to control these drones
looks exactly like Xbox and its no accident..young brains self trained to manage
such dextrous virtual slaying are easily adaptable to doing it for real at a
distance - or so I thought.
Recent
reports suggest that some of these operators can suffer from Post Traumatic
stress. In traditional warfare you would have the stres of battle to focus your
mind on saving your comrades - these guys operate in shifts. When they are done,
they can end up taking their kids to the movies or McDonalds and nyet they have
been operating technology with video surveillance good enough to check their
handiwork and the mess of gust and brains is unavoidable - they know they are
also a mass child murderer as well as a dad...
I've
just been reading for review Marc Pilisuks excellent new book "Who Benefits From
Global Violence and War - Uncovering a Destructive System. These new robotic and
algorithmiic systems are simply speeding up what is there already but we have
not seen anything yet alas. The limit on flying technology has become the
fraility of the human system - We are seing the alst generation of human flown
fighter craft - The non human future versions will go much faster. If its
evolution we are talking about - ourselves or our children will be working out
ways to survive such systems since even in a dying world, massive amounts of
money will be made from the process of human culling which these systems have in
store. Lets debate this at teh Leedsmet Crisis Forum conference at teh Rose Bowl
on 27th of November.
Steve
Halo
Why not go all the
way with the unmanned war thinking and we just create an online
game (similar to the 'Doom' game) where we can fight the entire
war in cyber space and no one dies.
this need to kill the
other without dying ourselves in not new. this is the reason for the
creation of modern weapons/methods like the Carpet bombing method and
Atomic Bomb. In world war 2 carpet bombing was excepable. but with
time, civilian deaths became unacceptable - so the need for smart
weapons became more 'in fashion' where we can kill only combatant with no
risk of us having to go through the rather not so nice process of
dying. what would be the next innovation in war? i heard of
people even talking abt mass hypnosis as a method to win wars.... this is
a human problem, we want war (good way to stimulate the economy) but
we do not want to be associated with all those not so nice things associated
with it....i personally think that the Man's brain is devolving into a monkey
brain - hey who said the evolution process is one way. perhaps
as monkeys, we can ensure the survival of the
species....
my two bananas
worth!
peace
yunus
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 17:22:40 +0100
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Hallo all,
just caught the end of this week's Material World
(Radio4) discussion on drones/un-manned war.....scary stuff, it will
be on the iplayer shortly i guess, last segment:
marianne
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