[FRIAM] Fwd: We just launched Russian Asset Tracker, most complete database to date

[Steve Smith]

Marcus shared:

> Steve wrote:
>
> “Their offices are in Kiev... they are likely doing advanced 
> skunkworks resistance projects in their labs right now... “
>
> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/03/starlink-helps-ukraines-elite-drone-unit-target-and-destroy-russian-tanks/
>
> < The Ukrainian unit's "most sophisticated drones are connected using 
> Starlink," The Times of London 
> <https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/specialist-drone-unit-picks-off-invading-forces-as-they-sleep-zlx3dj7bb> 
> wrote. "If we use a drone with thermal vision at night, the drone must 
> connect through Starlink to the artillery guy and create target 
> acquisition," an Aerorozvidka officer told the paper.>
>
And a Drone entry in the "Dove" column opposite the "Hawk" column:

    https://draganfly.com/news/draganfly-receives-order-for-critical-lifesaving-drones-from-revived-soldiers-ukraine-for-immediate-deployment-to-ukraine/

and as is inevitable (IMO), the Red Queen steps up her pace again:

    https://www.wired.com/story/watch-anti-drone-weapons-test/

    <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen%27s_race>

Driving us (inexorably) up the increasing slope of the 
(assumed/imagined) technological singularity?

Vernor Vinge's early 2000s whimsical view of experiencing that slope is 
a fascinating reflection, now (only slightly) dated, and somewhat prophetic.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbows_End

and a handful of related shorts, novellas, etc. set in the same imagined 
future (overlapping the lived now we are in).

Vinge (IMO) is classified as one of the SF writers whose credentials as 
working scientists (Math/CS in his case) suggests a certain credibility 
to their fiction.  He retired from San Diego State CS in 2000 I think, 
having contributed a great deal of proto-cyberpunk fiction to the canon 
starting as early as 1991.

I would be curious to hear others' opinions here about the larger 
context and implications of the Evolutionary Theoretic Red Queen Hypothesis:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Queen_hypothesis





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