The next HBO/Spielberg/Hanks WW2 miniseries is a go...

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by August

It must bug those Air-dales to no end to be replaced by a drone controlled by some pimply faced kid sitting at a console in some bunker. "Flying high into the wild blue yonder" is becoming a virtual thing.

War is becoming a virtual thing, won't be too many decades before flying drone gunships fight drone tanks while drone jets fight each other overhead.

It reminds me of an old Star Trek episode where they fought wars on a computer, calculated where the damage was and who was killed and then had the affected people euthanised.

And that's not even getting into cyber-warfare...