On Sat, Feb 20, 2016 at 4:04 AM, William Ewing (via tml list) <xxxxxx@simplelists.com> wrote:

The pendulum is swinging towards drones now. Cyberwar is one possible reason to swing it away, including making manned craft less hackable by making them less tech-reliant. Of course, after a while someone will find advantages in bringing back higher tech, and after that is exploited, it'll push back again...

William, I just thought might mention: sometimes it's a little hard to separate out your posts from the ones you're quoting/replying to. For some reason, the usual indentation lines and/or sets of arrows don't show up on yours (at least not for me).

Richard Aiken

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