Warrior Geeks: How 21st Century Technology is Changing the Way We Fight and Think About War [Hardcover]
Christopher Coker (Author)
This is a book I'm looking at getting, mainly for the reason of how our society has gone so digital. The USA is the most "online" nation/country in the world; from our schooling, media, social, and even religion. The last ten years has shown, for anyone that has been apart of it, we are a military that fights War online. Just as video gamers do their "World of Warcraft" to pull from current titles, our Commanders and Leaders are the same way. Our drone pilots who kill from The States and Commanders watching from their JOCs. We have drones that can target on their own, robots that take the risk out of battle and make decisions, soldiers whose lives are watched through a digital world of Commanders that no longer live on the battlefield, but from the comfort of a HVAC complex. Heck we even have parents that go fetch their kids from school via a Bluetooth/WiFi checkout. Let's not talk about how many sites China has hacked.
Looking over this book it seems that Mr. Coker writes in great detail about it how technogly will continue to change warfare. As we are a nation that has an ever increasing our role as it come with science fiction and fiction, yet where is the line drawn at?
I was talking with my HH6 about how today's kids no longer will have the imagination that we grow up with. They all live off some kind of tablet, yet are online bubble. We don't have the mass amount of kids growning up wanting to be a scientist or even the President. Will the easy if technology kill the USA?
From reading reviews, it seems that Mr. Coker believes that the military will have robots that will be autonomous with the ability to interface with human soldiers. Movies coming to life? T-1000 model rolling off Cyberdyne assembly lines? With the new "Iron Man" suit in the works, so we will be having autonomous system that can self-repair, self-maintain, self-learn, and self-power? Will we replace the human on the battlefield, in turn removing the Humane factor of warfare? The human values, remorse, fear, courage, and emotions?
Will America have the knowledge homegrown to develop and produce; or will the dependencies of foreign knowledge to drive American ingenuity countiue? U.S. technological innovations and know-how are one of America's most important economic and security assets. These assets are the Intellectual Property ("IP") which with the way current education systems is going, who knows what are the next big thing will come. Meaning from the US or India or China? I say that America's IP creators are crucial to American success in today's global economy and National Security.
Just a soap box of thinking on the thrown.
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