ABSTRACT
Reviewing the futuristic projections of terrifying scenarios by a pair of authors, legal scholar David Cole wrote in 2015,
They breathlessly imagine a world in which “technologies of mass empowerment” give everyone the capacity to inflict serious harm on everyone else, from anywhere. They envision a day in which a malevolent person can from the comfort of his living room, direct a tiny “spider drone” into the home of his enemy, where it will kill the victim in his shower, after first extracting a DNA sample and checking it against a worldwide database to ensure that it’s got the right victim.1
