Recommended Reading
Top Billing! Global Guerrillas –Drones and Operational Maneuverability
….Drones are currently in the process of being outfitted with insect mobility — bees to ants to fleas. However, that mobility is of diminished use given the limitations on decision making complexity (beyond what’s required mobility).
That decision making limitation will be fixed in the next decade, as inexpensive computing horsepower and bio-mimicry allows us to outfit drones with more complex mammalian behaviors (think rat).
In fact, given that this decision making capacity will become merely a function of inexpensive hardware/software, it will become a throw away feature. You can turn it up or down depending on need without any thought the expense involved.
This implies a pretty efficient combo of dumbed down drones operating as part of a swarm, reacting to stigmergic signalling, and more rodent like behavior when operating as individuals.
The Glittering Eye – Alien vs. Predator
When I read this comment:
I don’t see it that way. I don’t think it’s about race, I think it’s about his status as a member of the Ivy League elite. He doesn’t understand “typical white people” but then neither does Mitt Romney.
my immediate reaction was “Yeah. 100% of blacks in America were raised by white people in Indonesia and Hawaii.”
Carl Prine –General Discontent
The emails began circulating yesterday, all extolling the brilliance of retired U.S. Army LTG David Melcher as a good example of the “disruptive thinker,” his Ranger-honed brain sculpted by the best of the Army and unleashed now as a titan of entrepreneurship, his eyes burning as green as sawbucks in the jungle of Wall Street’s night.
Well, can you blame them? I know I can’t. Their applause for Melcher’s bio arrives at a historical moment, one that finds too many current and former soldiers intoxicated with a bit of maverick humbuggery championed by Lt. Benjamin Kohlmann on Small Wars Journal – an argument so clumsy that he, no joke, suggests that the best way to shake up the stifling complacency of the military bureaucracies is to send junior officers to business school, most especially the one at Harvard.
….To sell the innovative fusion that apparently occurs whenever we link – again, no joke – “cryogeneticists with F/A-18 pilots,” Kohlmann rambles on about fripperies as diverse as the iPhone, its godfather with deep pockets Steve Jobs, science fiction writer Orson Scott Card, dead USAF Col. John Boyd, the Myspace of living USN Adm. James Stavridis, three-named mediocrity Joshua Cooper Ramo, then some jumbled half-thoughts about crowdsourcing, terrorists and swarming drones all designed to answer a question he doesn’t really ask: Why do it? Who already benefits from today’s hidebound bureaucracy?
Granted, I don’t think that even one of Kohlmann’s examples of Harvard’s entrepreneurial spirit ever attended HBS, but perhaps their accountants and personal wealth managers did.
SWJ (Peter J. Munson) –Disruptive Thinkers: Defining the Problem
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