This «new meteorology», as it was sometimes
called, became culturally pervasive in the years following World War I. Not only did it lift the metaphors of trench
warfare and place them in the air (the «weather front» taking its name directly from the battle fronts of the war), it also insisted that to speak of the weather meant to speak of a global system of energies
opening, ever anew, onto different futures.
An
open letter, signed last year by 116 founders of robotics and artificial intelligence companies
calling for a United Nations ban on killer robots states, «Lethal autonomous weapons threaten to become the third revolution in
warfare.