Iraq Reviews > The Iraq War Was A Turning Point For Robot Armies - Futurism - io9

[io9: science] Call them the New Hessians: Like the German troops hired by the Brits to fight in the Revolutionary War, these robots show us outsourcing our fight. But in this case, not just to another nation, but away from the human race entirely.

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[Snarkmarket] Snarkmarket: Society/Culture: So perhaps the time is ripe for reconsideration of an ideal that has fallen out of favor: manual competence, and the stance it entails toward the built, material world. Neither as workers nor as consumers are we much called upon to exercise such competence, most of us anyway, and merely to recommend its cultivation is to risk the scorn of those who take themselves to be the most hard-headed: the hard-headed economist will point out the opportunity costs of making what can be bought, and the hard-headed educator will say that it is irresponsible to educate the young for the trades, which are somehow identified as the jobs of the past.

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