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

[Samantha Atkins]

SkyNet is another proposal.  it is closer than you think.


On Feb 16, 2005, at 7:16 AM, Mike Lorrey wrote:

>
> --- 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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