[GPSCC-chat] "Drones create a buzz in Southern California aerospaceindustry"

[Brian Good]

    I have mixed feelings about drones.  We've already seen their potential abused in 
terrorism against civilian populations as see-all kill-all invisible agents of sudden death 
from the sky.  On the other hand, they have the possibility of making a kind of war by
robot proxy:  there's no point in moving troops around unless you control the skies, so 
once the drone battle is settled, fighting on the ground is pointless.  Swarming drones 
can make aircraft carriers obsolete--is that a bad thing?  

    Some of the collateral damage we've already seen:   computer drone pilots decoupled
and detached from the carnage they wreak on the ground half a world away, and the 
greed in industry in this high-tech gold rush.  About a year ago Condi Rice addressed 
over a thousand software developers at the SAP confab in San Jose, and when Code Pink
and Progressive Democrats of America stood up and challenged her as a war criminal,
the apparently universal hostility to the demonstrators showed me that the gang of suits 
smelled money, big money, in Condi's world of military dominance.  

   









> Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:08:29 -0700
> From: tnharter at aceweb.com
> To: sosfbay-discuss at cagreens.org
> Subject: Re: [GPSCC-chat] "Drones create a buzz in Southern California	aerospaceindustry"
> 
> Chilling that they would publish that on 9/11 of all days.
> 
> Gerry Gras wrote:
> > 
> > From the LA Times: an article about the benefits of
> > drone technology to Southern California business.
> > 
> > http://articles.latimes.com/2010/sep/11/business/la-fi-drones-20100912
> > 
> > Gerry
> > 
> > (Thanks to Barry Hermanson who posted it to the GPSMC list.)
> 
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