Killing gadgets

I like gadgets and programmes about gadgets, but this week's Gadget Show on Channel 5 featured remote controlled weapons. Ok this was only for paint balling, but just because the payload is a paint ball it doesn't mean the technology isn't based on real weaponry. In fact the presenter already pointed out how much money is invested in developing remote control killing machines.

Yes, the finest technology, and the finest minds are being put towards killing members of our own species. We are fighting over scarces resources, but we are wasting resources doing the fighting, thereby creating (or increasing at least) the reason to fight by the actual fighting itself.

And let's not forget that this is all good, because it's making work for people to do -and we must have more work, so that we can earn the money to get the resources that we've decided we must pay for with money because we've made them scarce so that people have to pay for them or because we've wasted them on fighting, or making things that don't last because we have to sell more of them to get more money to buy more of them.


 Lunacy.