“Warfare is dominated by unmanned intelligent airborne devices. Many of these flying weapons are the size of small birds, or smaller.”

Ray KurzweilThought Leader

Inventor and futurist, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines

Armed drones had become central to the air campaigns in Afghanistan and Pakistan by 2009, and Kurzweil argued the prediction held, but warfare overall was still conducted by manned platforms and ground forces, and bird-sized flying weapons were not in general use.