Kurzweil bet the Pentagon would field the first autonomous machines. Instead a taxi company did — and the guided bullet is still a patent, not a procurement line.
2005 predicted 120-robot DARPA swarms for us. 2025 delivered drones that destroyed 87 percent of our Abrams fleet.
Kurzweil’s 2005 warfare chapter got the shape right and the institutions wrong: FCS died, smart dust didn’t arrive, and Ukraine’s $500 quadcopters are the force he described.