Reflections From a Murky Pond

The idea of combining an anti-tank mine with a robot vacuum is hilarious. It’s also a bit terrifying. And… it’s probably either already out there in our military’s arsenal or in development. After all, iRobot, the makers of the Roomba, pretty much got their start designing and producing robots for the US military.

Think about it. Either RC or, given that shape recognition software is quite mature technology, autonomous Doombas that can be set in place to await enemy vehicles could easily be done – assuming they haven’t already quietly been so. And then there’s the obvious antipersonnel variant that would mount a flip-up M18A1 Claymore mine or a set of 6 Miniature Grenade Launchers (MGL) such are used with the M7 Spider networked anti-personnel munitions system.

I can hear it now, “Alexa, I’d like to destroy that ZTZ-99A now.”

Tags: Drones | Future Shock | Futurism | Humor | Landmines | Military | Robots | Roomba | Sarcasm | Technology | War

This entry was posted on Sunday, February 5th, 2023 at 6:00 pm and is filed under Humor, Technology. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

While we’ve no evidence that this has happened to Man before – the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1–9) is lore, not evidence – the Science-Religion Cycle both makes sense and is something of a favorite with both futurists and science-fiction writers. Frankly, I find it quite plausible.

Tags: Faith | Future History | Futurism | Futurists | Mankind | Religion | Science | Society | Technology

This entry was posted on Friday, January 6th, 2023 at 7:00 am and is filed under Religion, Society, Technology. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Normally, predicting the future is a waste of time, energy, and thought – something best left to oracles and others who want to sell you something, most likely stocks or commodity futures. Still though, given the twin, synergistic plagues of the Democrats and COVID-19, I think that predicting some parts of the near future is easy. 😉

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