This week's episode of Science Saturday on Bloggingheads.tv, in which John Horgan interviews Peter W. Singer, looks hard at this question. The discussion mostly focuses on Singer's new book, Wired for War; i.e., the growth of unmanned warfare, but the obvious larger questions easily spring to mind.
An interesting conversation, even if I came away thinking: It doesn't matter what we worry about -- future generations are not even going to be able to understand what we were worried about. (I argue this at greater length in the forums at BH.tv, if you'd like to jump in there. Or here is fine, as always.)
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I want to be a cyborg, so that I can feel superior and dismiss your silly Homo sapiens blog.
I hardly think you need enhanced powers to do that.
I'll bet that our army of drones is going to run Bin Laden down and score a coup for O'Bama in his first year. Letterman suggested that we execute Osama at halftime at the Super Bowl. A thousand drones could buzz the stadium before the game or during commercials. What could be more patriotic/American than that?
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