Droning On, Terminator Dept. 1
At Asia Times, Nick Turse looks to the future Drone Wars. A nugget:
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June 1, 2012 at 1:07 pm
Google the YouTube trailer for Sleep Dealer. A Mexican sci-fi film maker made a logical extension of the drone fetish part of a movie a few years ago. It didn’t do very well. Made people a little too uncomfortable although it was clearly shot in a cheap satirical manner. I won’t be buying this book. I don’t need to be reminded that we don’t run this country, we just coincidentally now live here. If I’d know that being a shitty techno-thriller writer would be valuable in US military circles I might have done things very differently.