Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready

[Rupert]

Emerging bio-, nano-, and cyber-technologies are enabling criminals to target anyone anywhere and, due to democratization, increasingly at scale.


https://getpocket.com/explore/item/omniviolence-is-coming-and-the-world-isn-t-ready

"A very, very small quadcopter, one inch in diameter can carry a one-or two-gram shaped charge," he says. "You can order them from a drone manufacturer in China. You can program the code to say: 'Here are thousands of photographs of the kinds of things I want to target.' A one-gram shaped charge can punch a hole in nine millimeters of steel, so presumably you can also punch a hole in someone's head.