At 14:06 08/12/2011, Ray wrote:
Star Wars here we come.
Your reply prompts me to make a request from FW readers. About 50/55
years ago when I was a science fiction fan I read a novel by a
well-known SF author in which he described a world when total war
between the great powers had either started or about to start. The
book ends with a large number of small fighter planes (or rockets or
drone-like things) streaming out of Israel and more or less knocking
all the belligerent parties on the head. (If I remember rightly they
were powered with something to do with diamonds.) For some reason
(which I can't adequately describe here) I've often wanted to re-read
that book but cannot remember the author, even less the title. Does
any FWer know what this author and title might be?
Keith
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Subject: [Futurework] Government from bunkers
Those high-flying pilotless planes called drones fascinate me.
American drones have been hand-picking and killing Taliban
commanders in Afghanistan one by one in the last year or two. Last
week, one of America's latest bat-winged RQ-170 Sentinel drones went
off-course and landed deep in Iran. (This accident will electrify
the Israelis, of course!) You can be sure that Russian and Chinese
scientists will already be examining the drone closely and will soon
be taking its detailed specifications back home for copying. It is
said that the latest American-Israeli drones under development are
now slimmed down to the size of songbirds, or even large insects
like mosquitoes. Once enough countries have developed these drones
in the coming years, it will surely be the case that no powerful
politicians in the world will be able to show themselves in public
for fear of being assassinated by a simulated pigeon which has
parked itself overnight on a nearby roof. It will be government from
bunkers by then, won't it?
Keith
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
<http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/>http://allisstatus.wordpress.com
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