From studying trends in drone development, both in terms of software and
hardware, I am now predicting the development of facial-recognition
"kamikaze micro drones" capable of carrying out targeted human
assassination missions with remarkable precision and reliability. The four
trends that will lead to this are:
1) Drone miniaturization: The development of mass-produced, affordable
"micro drones" about the size of a common bird. These will likely
be produced as hobby aircraft which will be easily modified to take on a more
aggressive role.
2) Facial recognition systems: The miniaturization of facial recognition
software / hardware systems which may be deployed on micro drones and powered
by very small on-board power supplies.
3) Rapid advances in drone manufacturing efficiency, resulting in greater
affordability of drone platforms by smaller and smaller groups, including
corporations, smaller nations, universities, vigilantes and even activist
groups.
4) Incremental improvements in the power density of on-board batteries,
allowing greater flight time and more CPU-intensive on-board computations.
These four trends will ultimately result in the creation of "Kamikaze
assassination micro drones" with the ability to search for, identify and
terminate a specific human target. It is likely, in fact, that many
governments of the world are already working on this technology.
This technology will reshape the meaning of "war" by allowing
rogue nations like North Korea, for example, to simply ship tens of thousands
of such drones into the USA via China, marked as "toys" on import
manifests.
