Tuesday, May 15, 2012

Fiction May One Day Become Reality



Pentagon: That Fictional Drone From That Unreleased Video Game Sure Looks Cool -- Popular Science

Art imitates life they say, and every now and then life imitates art. Which is only slightly terrifying when the art being imitated is a Call of Duty title and the real-world entity doing the imitating is the Pentagon. A fictional drone from a video game that hasn’t even been released yet has inspired a DoD office to consider pursuing the same drone in real life, Brookings Institute 21st Century Defense Initiative director and all-around drones guru Peter Singer tells Innovation News Daily.

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My Comment: After watching this video, I had only one question. When will our soldiers who are serving in the field going to get this tech.

2 comments:

D.Plowman said...

Answer: Never

It is also not practical, possibly easy to shoot down, and more or less some CoD fanboy in a top job who just wanted to do something cool.

I wouldn't even take this seriously...

War News Updates Editor said...

I thinking more of the future. Better stealth. Better targeting instruments. Quiet rotors. etc..