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Off to the Drone Races…

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In Robert Farley
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On October 12, 2011
My column this week at WPR thinks through the politics and precedents of Predators: Arms races don't just "happen" because of outside technological developments. Rather, they are embedded in political dynamics associated with public perception, international prestige and bureaucratic conflict. China and Russia pursued the...
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The Face of the New Pacific War

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On January 7, 2009
Matt points out that Eliot Spitzer has become a shill for our robot would-be overlords. Even more alarming, Josh Keating posts the graph to the left, indicating international robot density.The data support only one conclusion. On December 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy struck Pearl...

Evolution of the Cylon

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On September 19, 2008
Andrew Probert, designer of the Cylons for the first Battlestar Galactica series:“Originally the Galactica motion picture (for overseas distribution) was filmed with dialog explaining that the Cylons were creatures,” Probert confirmed. “They were blind and created helmet scanners to see. That explains the helmets. Then,...

"Thousands of Robots"

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On June 1, 2008
If Hillary comes out with a proposal for a Department of Anti-Robot Affairs, I'll switch my support. More seriously, the overall effect of "robot surges" seems to be to shift the cost of war from the blood side of the ledger to the treasure side....
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On May 30, 2008

Friday Cat Blogging... Starbuck and Nelson...needless to say, on the watch for monkey-cyborgs...

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