{"id":294,"date":"2004-05-12T07:24:40","date_gmt":"2004-05-12T13:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=294"},"modified":"2004-05-12T07:24:40","modified_gmt":"2004-05-12T13:24:40","slug":"robo-soldier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2004\/05\/12\/robo-soldier\/","title":{"rendered":"Robo-Soldier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Robots for a better tomorrow?<\/p>\n<p>Well, maybe, maybe not.  In either case, considering all the things that can go wrong for humans on a battlefield, I can see why the military might be interested in having a robot fight in place of people.  And, according to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/news\/technology\/0,1282,63036,00.html\">this article on Wired News<\/a>, they may just be headed that direction.  Based on the article I can easily picture something like this replacing current armored divisions.  Much safer for humans, but still giving the heavy fire-support that troops need.<br \/>\nPersonally, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d want to follow Sargent &#8220;Chips&#8221; into battle, but, then again, I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;m all that cut out for military life anyway.  And, I wonder, too, how long before we get to completely robotic armies.  And, how long after that before they get out of control&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robots for a better tomorrow? Well, maybe, maybe not. In either case, considering all the things that can go wrong for humans on a battlefield, I can see why the military might be interested in having a robot fight in place of people. And, according to this article on Wired News, they may just be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-invented-worlds","category-news-and-current-events","category-science-and-technology","category-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}