[extropy-chat] IHT: 'GI, Robot' rolls toward the battlefield

Mike Lorrey mlorrey at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 16 15:16:15 UTC 2005


--- Giu1i0 Pri5c0 <pgptag at gmail.com> wrote:

> The robot soldier is coming. The Pentagon predicts that robots will
> be a major fighting force in the American military in less than a
> decade,
> hunting and killing enemies in combat. Robots are a crucial part of
> the U.S. Army's effort to rebuild itself as a 21st-century fighting
> force, and a $127 billion project called Future Combat Systems is the
> biggest military contract in American history.

Aw, just call it SkyNet and be done with it...

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Mike Lorrey
Vice-Chair, 2nd District, Libertarian Party of NH
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.
It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
                                      -William Pitt (1759-1806) 
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