The Age of Drones has Come: the End of Cities as We Know Them?
The Age of Drones has Come: the End of Cities as We Know Them? Never ask for whom the drone is coming, it is coming for thee. Ugo Bardi An image of things already coming. The Iranian Shahed (“martyr”) drone is an example of a new generation of killing machines. In themselves, drones are just a further step forward in the human capability to kill people at a long distance that started with slings and bows, went through firearms and artillery, and is now mainly based on these nearly autonomous murdering tools. These things are manufactured by the millions and then handed to psychopathic criminals who use them as extermination weapons. How can we defend ourselves? It may well be that we are watching the end of a cycle nearly 10,000 years long. Cities have become a target, no longer a safe haven. We may have to abandon them to move to low-value targets in the form of small villages. The story of human warfare is an arms race between attack and defense, mainly driven by range. In earl...