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Military cyborgs are those that use technology to augment one's ability to survive and kill in hostile environments. They may be manned remotely be teleoperation, or a human may fit inside them, as in the case of robotic exoskeletons. | Military cyborgs are those that use technology to augment one's ability to survive and kill in hostile environments. They may be manned remotely be teleoperation, or a human may fit inside them, as in the case of robotic exoskeletons. | ||
| + | If you get machines to fight wars, it takes a lot of human elements out of wars. If you provide remote killing, it removes the human impulse to protest them in the first place. Displacing pain and the spectacle of destruction is an efficient way of increasing it's productivity. Ender's Game was a science fiction book that dove further into this concept. | ||
===Related Reading=== | ===Related Reading=== | ||
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Definition
Military cyborgs are those that use technology to augment one's ability to survive and kill in hostile environments. They may be manned remotely be teleoperation, or a human may fit inside them, as in the case of robotic exoskeletons. If you get machines to fight wars, it takes a lot of human elements out of wars. If you provide remote killing, it removes the human impulse to protest them in the first place. Displacing pain and the spectacle of destruction is an efficient way of increasing it's productivity. Ender's Game was a science fiction book that dove further into this concept.
