Orion

2/1/13

Drones

The concept of a drone kind of scares me.  A remote controlled mini aircraft that is used to kill and spy on people?  This is pretty serious to me.  It makes me think that someone is controlling a drone three miles up into the air watching me through my classroom window; and it would be impossible for me to know it was there.  We talked about a drone that was going to be made that had the appearance and size of a hummingbird.  it makes me think twice about my pets.  What if my cat named Friendly was actually a not so friendly land side drone that my mom uses to spy on me?  This could be possible in not so long of a time.  I heard on the news that in five years, computers are expected to be conscious.  They have minds of their owns.  This relates to Ender's Game because  the "desks" or computers have a fantasy game that kids play.  As Ender beats levels of the game that nobody ever has, The computer creates a new one without any additional programming or human input.  The computer also bases the game off the person who plays it, and the way they play it.  I thought this was pretty cool.  It is also said that the computers know more about the kids in the battle school than the people who created them and even know more about kids than they do themselves. I thought this was interesting.