Army Officer Invokes ‘Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines’ In Drone Paper
March 14th, 2013Via: Business Insider:
Along the way Pryer writes that he wishes he believed that America would one day look back at “transnational drone strikes as a morally disastrous policy that our nation brie?y toyed with at the turn of the century, before gaining wisdom from this folly.”
He believes himself to be optimistic in this regard though. A dreamer. Instead, a combination of an American feeling of blind moral superiority and technological supremacy make the development of Spartan robots seem like a foregone conclusion.
Then he drops this dystopic doozy:
[The U.S. seems bound to develop] robots so advanced that they make today’s Predators and Reapers look positively impotent and antique. These killer robots, though, will share one thing in common with their primitive progenitors: with remorseless purpose, they will stalk and kill any human deemed “a legitimate target” by their controllers and programmers.
