Ender’s Game is Already a Reality for the U.S. Military

Troops are being trained with military technology inspired by an iconic science fiction novel

By David Kushner Posted 31 Oct 2013 



“We don’t give them a manual, we don’t send them home for three weeks to study,” says James Blake, head of the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation. “We just put them in the environment, put the device on them, and exercise.”

Enders Game, who knew? Does this mean I have to go see this thing? Caramba. Straight line though from the Book to Dismounted Soldier (eMagin Inside) Training System. Drone, UAVs of all types, Weaponized Semi-Autonomous Bots,  Ships without Sailors, Remote Sentries and millions of people playing COD Ghosts and Battlefield 4, CryEngine, Bohemia supplying  the software, makes perfect sense, the other Future of War is a Video Game by other means.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/software/enders-game-is-already-a-reality-for-the-us-military