The Spiders

I've been reading Electric Sheep Comix's "The Spiders," a fascinating interpretation of what a war in the Middle East could have been, or could be, with the benefit of non-lethal technology and the World Wide Web. Imagine a hundred thousand cheap and tiny mobile spy cameras dropped into Afghanistan and controlled remotely by any willing man, woman or child with a computer and high-speed Internet access, and go from there. An Afghan soldier carrying a bazooka and sitting in the middle of the desert finds himself being chatted up an LA teenager sitting in her bedroom: "My name is Tracy Hampton. I live in Laguna Beach, California. Would you like to talk?"

Imagine a world where military technology is designed to end conflict by preventing violence, rather than inflicting it, and then go read about it.