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September 29
5 | 29.9.2012 | 7 months ago |

Drone Diplomacy: Comply or Die

A bit more from John Robb’s genius around drones. With drone fleets under command, any power (country, company) can automate it’s command over mere individuals, under the threat of very quick annihilation from the air.

It allows truly scalable global coercion:  the automation of comply or die.  

Call up the target on his/her personal cell (it could even be automated as a robo-call to get real scalability — wouldn’t that suck, to get killed completely through bot based automation).

Ask the person on the other end to do something or to stop doing something.  

If they don’t do what you ask, they die soon therafter due to drone strike (unless they go into deep hiding and disconnect from the global system). 
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    It’s something I wish I couldn’t see happening in reality. Like many things: wish denied. Let’s hope my wish that it...
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