"The wars of the future will be fought by tiny robots, in space, or on the top of very tall mountains! And your jobs as soldiers will be to build and mantain those robots!"
I suppose I could have just ripped the line right out of the Episode. It's nicer when you don't have to pander; when you can make 'inside' jokes that people don't feel the need to explain.
Read more carefully, these robots can only operate from 1 to 4 hours before needing fresh batteries. These are not designed for raiding into a room and shooting up random iraqis. This is a sharpshooter, prolly will be used for taking out threats from distances.
I feel this is a good thing for the soldiers though, usually they have to wait to be shot at before they can tell who is hostile and who isn't. Rules of Engagement just so you know. However it would be interesting to see the reactions of insurgents if one of these came cruising down the street. Personally, im waiting for them to start sending in robots with machine guns and grenade launchers. :D That would be a hell of a toy.
I remember there was this table top tank war game where all wars were fought in Antartica, so that the lands the wining armies recieved would never be harmed. It was an off way of viewing it, but then again, so was the neutron bomb.
Could always think star trek where the computers launch cyber nukes at each others worlds, then calculated who would die in the made up attack, then lose people would be killed willingly to reflect the cyber war.
I think it would be neat if we fought our wars in places that have absolutly no connection to us or the war directly. In example; Iraq and the United States go to war... in Brazil! You can also take it to a more grand scale like so; Humans versus the Martians... on Pluto!
Well if you think about, since they are machines, or like robots, and considering how much they dominate our lives, computers are technically our overlords right now.
No they're not, no more then Serfs were the overlords of Medieval Europe. Sure, one could argue that the Serfs did all the work, so the Lords needed them, but it was still the Lords calling the shots. They were more then willing to sacrifice a few faceless peasents to save some important nobleman or their cousin who was duke of some fiefdom somewhere, and we are usually prepared to suffer damage to our machines to help people.
