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Perhaps we could have killed Osama bin-Laden with a drone, but since he rarely left his compound, our soldiers had to go in and get him instead. In Whitley’s new novel Hybrids, he writes about machine-men who are engineered to be soldiers. The US seems pretty complacent about using drones for warfare, but the UK isn’t quite so sanguine about it: They think that growing use of unmanned aircraft in combat situations raises huge moral and legal issues. They also worry that wars will become more common once armed robots take over the fighting.
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In the future, everyone may have an avatar–a double who does tasks that you don’t want to perform. Your avatar will make a better impression than you would and, since you program it, everyone else it deals with (who may be avatars themselves) will know that its decisions are the same as yours.read more

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There are THREE ways to meet Whitley Strieber. You can buy a copy of his new novel Hybrids on Saturday, April 23rd at 2 pm Pacific in Burbank, California at Dark Delicacies Bookstore. If you want to listen to Whitley read the first 3 chapters of the book AND see him morph into a machine, click on the Hybrids website. And you’ll have a lot more time to talk to him if you come to the Dreamland Festival in Nashville in June.
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