> Your naive faith in software developers is touching, but this is entirely speculative. Until someone actually does it we don't know how much it will cost or how long it will take.
What about using those 1.4 trillions dollars to support R&D, businesses and help people to live longer and have a good life?
What about investing 1.4 trillions in genome research? in cancer research? in renewable and nuclear energy production?
Sorry, but I prefer to be a naive software developer helping connecting people together around the world than someone who helps random people to get kill.
We are not in the cold war anymore, people don't communicate with papers. We can solve problems by other means than sending missiles to each others, we can see beyond the military propaganda of the countries. We know when something is possible but not preferable : killing drones are one of those project. Technically feasible, ethically not acceptable.