hours worked by employees, unemployed have difficulties finding employment.Critical Analysis I found the information Barbara Garson gave us about automated defense systems frightening and chilling. It scares me to know that machines are calculating war tactics. During the Vietnam War the results from the computer were used by actual people in making tactical decisions, however what happens if in the near future automated systems directly influence weaponry on the battlefield. Already today weapons have become extremely high tech, and entire wars seem to have become on big video game. During the Golf War we witnessed how advanced our armed forces are. Most of the fighting seemed to have been done by remote weaponry such as Tomahawk and Patriot missiles. Yet, what if these missals would not be controlled by people pushing buttons but by computers directly? I find this to be a scary thought. For one computers are prone to break down are create errors. Human lives should not be left in the hands (or left up to computer chips) of logistic defense systems. It sort of makes me wonder what a letter to a mother’s fallen son might sound like: “sorry about your loss, but due to a temporary computer breakdown your son walked straight into a mine field.” (These letters might even be processed by the computer itself). Furthermore, we have seen that supervisors see employees as a hindrance in their pursuit of profit. People supposedly only get in the way of business since they can think. What might happen if this logistic computer calculates that friendly manned weaponry is a hindrance in winning a war? It might start to attack its own side. The consequences I could dream up are frightening. Moreover, does a computer understand the value of life? Does it know what consequences the death of a soldier on either side of the war might have? Does it have compassion? Can it distinguish between enemy forces and civilian population? Hence...
