<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Drones on Dirk Kelly</title><link>https://dirkkelly.com/tags/drones/</link><description>Recent content in Drones on Dirk Kelly</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en-US</language><lastBuildDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://dirkkelly.com/tags/drones/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Slaughterbots, A Terrifying Vision of the Future if Bots are Allowed to Kill.</title><link>https://dirkkelly.com/posts/slaughterbots-terrifying-vision-future/</link><pubDate>Wed, 22 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://dirkkelly.com/posts/slaughterbots-terrifying-vision-future/</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;The rate of technological evolution is increasing exponentially, devices which we couldn&amp;rsquo;t imagine existing 20 years ago are now a mainstream part of life. Consumer product development is only one area of advancement though, and it&amp;rsquo;s hardly the cutting edge.&lt;/p&gt;&#10;&lt;p&gt;All technological innovations of the past 50 years have been driven primarily by military need, this includes but is not limited to the &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Internet" target="_blank"&gt;Internet&lt;/a&gt;&#10;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cryptography" target="_blank"&gt;Encryption&lt;/a&gt;&#10;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_unmanned_aerial_vehicles" target="_blank"&gt;Drones&lt;/a&gt;&#10;, &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intelligence" target="_blank"&gt;Artificial Intelligence&lt;/a&gt;&#10;, and most obviously &lt;a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_weapons" target="_blank"&gt;Weapons&lt;/a&gt;&#10;.&lt;/p&gt;</description></item></channel></rss>