These are screen caps from Patrick Farley's The Spiders (2002). It illustrates, more concisely than any writing could, how military robotics could be used imaginatively to reduce the risk of bodily harm to friendly and collateral human assets in a conflict zone.Rather than simply doing our fighting for us, the way most people imagine military robots, the robots in spiders serve as intelligence gatherers, and not just in the spying on the enemy sort of way, but also in winning hearts and minds, by providing links to the outside world for neutrals in the war-zone, most likely winning converts through kindness.
Moreover, the approach dreamed up by Farley presents a situation where the interested populous of the developed world could be mobilized for the effort to find Osama bin Laden.
Farley is in the process of rebooting all of his comics on his new website. These screen grabs are his property, and if he wishes me to remove them, I will do so upon request.
Jonas,
ReplyDeletewhat does my feminist ego say about the sentence-even a woman could crush one of these toys with her bare hands???
I CANT SUPPORT SUCH MACHISMO^^
Well, it's supposed to be a comment made by one of the Al Qaeda audio-visual engineers while they're looking over the spiders they've captured.
ReplyDeleteSo rest assured, a bad man said it. ^^
Hey,
ReplyDeleteit's August-where is the next post???
BTW what's a good man again???