In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that drones, as advanced technological tools, embody a new form of warfare that lacks emotional engagement and accountability.
Eduardo Galeano's quote highlights the impersonal nature of modern warfare, where drones operate as autonomous agents with lethal efficiency. They execute orders with precision and without emotional or moral considerations, representing a significant shift in how wars are conducted in the contemporary era. The idea that they do not reveal their masters raises questions about accountability and responsibility in warfare, suggesting a detachment between those who issue commands and the consequences of their actions.
In practice
In a discussion about modern warfare ethics, this quote can be used to emphasize the moral implications of drone usage.
Utopia is on the horizon. I move two steps closer; it moves two steps further away. I walk another ten steps and the horizon runs ten steps further away. As much as I may walk, I'll never reach it. So what's the point of utopia? The point is this: to keep walking.
It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.
We live in a world that treats the dead better than the living. We, the living are askers of questions and givers of answers, and we have other grave defects unpardonable by a system that believes death, like money, improves people.
History never really says goodbye. History says, 'See you later.'
The more freedom is extended to business, the more prisons have to be built for those who suffer from that business.
Utopia lies at the horizon. When I draw nearer by two steps, it retreats two steps. If I proceed ten steps forward, it swiftly slips ten steps ahead. No matter how far I go, I can never reach it. What, then, is the purpose of utopia? It is to cause us to advance.
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have been the product of experiment and work based on physical reasoning, rather than on the mathematicians' calculations and formulae. Precisely the opposite impression is obtained from many of our present day text books and publications.
You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.
If people start to buy the idea that machines are great companions for the elderly or for children, as they increasingly seem to do, we are really playing with fire.
I hope to literally change the world with Black Girls Code by changing the paradigm which produces the current monolithic ecosystem in technology.
The fear isn't that big data discriminates. We already know that it does. It's that you don't know if you've been discriminated against.
No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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