April 9th
Filling the Skies with Robot Assassins: The Drone Wars Have Begun
Hunter-killer drones armed with Hellfire missiles are patrolling the Pentagon’s expanding global battlefields: It’s a scene right out of Terminator.
In 1984, Skynet, the supercomputer that rules a future Earth, sent a cyborg assassin, a “terminator,” back to our time. His job was to liquidate the woman who would give birth to John Connor, the leader of the underground human resistance of Skynet’s time. You with me so far? That, of course, was the plot of the first Terminator movie and for the multi-millions who saw it, the images of future machine war — of hunter-killer drones flying above a wasted landscape — are unforgettable.
