There is a number of topics I could address this week, such
as the food scandal in Europe, the spread of drones in the USA, or the rumblings
of a genuine supervillain state in North Korea. However, the creation of mad
science innovations at home is only beginning compared to what it may become
despite (or perhaps because of) government laws. Death rays may join homemade
firearms and explosives as weapons of mad scientists. Perhaps drones may be the
new guns, in the sense of a disruptive technology everyone rushes to ban. Given
the vulnerabilities of critical infrastructure and possibilities of destructive
drone swarms, protection will be extremely difficult, if not impossible. Tomorrow's
"terrorists" may lack ideology or cause, save destroying something
and seeing what happens. The instability of the current world system becomes
even more strained as a result. What could possibly go wrong?
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