My column this week at WPR thinks through the politics and precedents of Predators: Arms races don't just "happen" because of outside technological developments. Rather, they are embedded in political dynamics associated with public perception, international prestige and bureaucratic conflict. China and Russia pursued the...
the coming robot wars
The conclusion to draw from this video is that robots pose no threat to our way of life. If even a simple cat can defeat a robot, then it would.
Mike Mullen thinks so. Boeing and the Russians disagree. I guess I'm with Mullen; there are currently jobs that manned warplanes can do that drones can't perform (human pilots are.
Matt points out that Eliot Spitzer has become a shill for our robot would-be overlords. Even more alarming, Josh Keating posts the graph to the left, indicating international robot density.The data support only one conclusion. On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy struck Pearl...
Is the Air Force too casual about the threat posed by giant metal robots?As we speak, [Michael] Bay is shooting a sequel that has even more U.S. military hardware on.
Not. Good.
Andrew Probert, designer of the Cylons for the first Battlestar Galactica series:“Originally the Galactica motion picture (for overseas distribution) was filmed with dialog explaining that the Cylons were creatures,” Probert confirmed. “They were blind and created helmet scanners to see. That explains the helmets. Then,...
This is troubling:Carnegie Mellon University, whose team placed first at Urban Challenge, is partnering up with tractor-maker Caterpillar to build the world's largest ground robot: a 700-ton robo dump truck.
This had me worried about the kangaroo problem; when we face the onslaught of Svalbard hatched monkey cyborgs, will the kangaroo be at our back, or in our face? An.
If Hillary comes out with a proposal for a Department of Anti-Robot Affairs, I'll switch my support. More seriously, the overall effect of "robot surges" seems to be to shift the cost of war from the blood side of the ledger to the treasure side....
Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson...needless to say, on the watch for monkey-cyborgs...
Rob usually covers the zombie/robot/monkey beat around here -- while I content myself with vampires, UFOs and the occasional case of therianthropy -- but this is an urgent piece of.