Back in 2006 when I was writing my graduate thesis about drone, surveillance and autonomous systems I knew I could see the future. The fact that technology would eventually change our existence in ways we could not predict was clear to me. Now 20 years later that video of the future is reality. Every current global conflict, from Ukraine to the Middle East and beyond, involves drones on all sides. Thousands of videos are being given to artificial intelligence to train its ability to be used to autonomously choose targets for devastating drone and missile strikes. We are living in the time of the ruination of our perception. Now is the time to embrace the values of the Neo-Luddites. The sunsetting of the human in the loop has begun, where we end up only time will tell.
The Last Operator III, The Sunsetting of the Human in the Loop (Neo-Luddite Revelations).
Miniature Landscape 2026