One
keeps waiting for the other tire to drop with NASCAR human pit crews
changing tires for cars driven without a human on board. Google
program driven cars have shown the way of the future of a national
auto fleet piloted by programs able to smoothly interface with other
computer drivers to avoid any sort of traffic jams and optimize
traffic flow, yet one wonders how they would do in the bump and drive
calculations of the NASCAR track.
Chess
programs have passed up the best human players so far and might be
able to make enough calculations and take higher risks than human
drivers that might fear crashing or being burned to a crisp, while a
non-self-aware computer program might not worry about its own
destruction unless programmed for survival. Such survival programming
can present a threat to humans in general however as computers
generally programmed for survival might regard human actions or
existence as an existential threat. Racing around an oval with humans
on board might continue for a while longer, even as faster, cleaner
electric racing cars at higher speeds adhere to a track with magnetic
bonding bring higher potential g-force stress to racing cars and
drivers.
There
are so many applications of electronics miniaturization and
sophisticated program along with flying robotics that can be applied
to war that one can imagine that whomever producing the items and has
the most programmers working for the powers of concentrated wealth
will be able to define and attack whomever is regarded as the class
enemy. Those would be the dissidents to the image of the beast maybe.
Evolutionary production of that anti-Christ arising through failure
to conserve the ecosphere and adapt eco-socially in a timely way to
full employment, secure national borders and optimal planetary
so-tech progress may develop through Occam’s razors of political
defense necessity wherein the technology is tested and sophisticated.
Miniaturization
of electronic components, robotic technology and programming
sophistication may bring changes to innumerable areas of society in
the years ahead. In war the drive to miniaturize flying
anti-personnel drones with enough plastic explosive to kill one human
soldier will be surpassed by drones with face-recognition technology
able to kill just terrorists in Middle-Eastern areas of civil
conflict. At a larger scale military units will want flying and
bounding over-watch anti-drone drones ready to defend against
predatory anti-soldier swarms of drones. In fixed positions small
lasers to locate and burn incoming micro-drone swarms will be hidden
in the eyes of robotic dogs charging their tails in power sockets
with super-conducting batteries keeping enough power for thousand of
pulses against proximity micro-drones. Yet it is in planetary
exploration that the dog of war can be moved best into the role of
man’s best friend boldly going where no man has gone before.
Astronauts
following the hair of the dog to Mars should find robotic canine
rovers already on the planet charging themselves from vast solar
arrays dropped onto the planet surface. The solar panels should be
scrubbed clean by solar work-mice scuttling about with little
brushes. A nuclear power source for electricity might be placed to in
order for the canine rovers to get a quick charge of five hour energy
when the sun is gone behind a dust storm and at night so if
extraterrestrials prowlers arrive the first mutts of Mars can bark
warnings to Earth persons at the exo-planet control lounge with fully
stocked refrigerator, Jacuzzi good pay and retirement benefits so
they can ask Congress to react with an increase in funding and zero
interest loans to large global banks.
Security
for Wall Street networking and some Americans maybe is contingent not
only on a vast fleet of stealth ships of all sizes, some piloted by
A.I. programs, some without a human on board, and some able to fly or
submerge or maybe burrow in benthic mud, it must have a balanced
budget able to afford to run up vast new debt whenever there is an
enemy at the border, or crossing over the border, or occupying
political office and implementing policies that don’t work out for
whomever it was that is or was benefiting from the unfair and
discriminatory practices and procedures that let the wrong people
consolidate wealth and defoliate the environment while massing up
exterminations of species or living creatures. Like Hal Eniac
organizer of the lost robotic mission to Oceana said, “Baby,
its good to have humans on board”.