Mike hingley

West Midlands (UK)

Software Developer`

My only comment that I would like to make is regarding Peter's last section - primarily about how technology inevitably becomes released from the hand that creates it into unknown ownership. He advoc ates adding remote disabling facilities into tanks etc incase tanks get into the hands of enemies.

I agree that this seems on the surface like a good idea - however there is a paradoxical problem with this.

Technology has a habbit of getting out. Therefore the 'super secret' disabling software will eventually fall into the terrorists hands. This will (eventually) lead to a arms race - each side developing countermeasures to remove and overcome the othersides countermeasures. I do conceed that this would make the prospect of warfare interesting - it would reduce it down to who could get a tank to start first.

Then there's the added complexity of adding these complex systems into an increasingly complex machine - building complexity on top of complexity.

I personally believe that we need to look more at controlling how technology gets out rather than trying to stop it once it has got out.