These represent a tremendous shift in the balance of power between individuals and government.
The future is not looking good for freedom!
Interesting that you should say that. That's a central theme of the book
Tragedy and Hope, by Quigley (Bill Clinton's mentor). He theorized that the periods of time in human history when the vast majority of mankind were oppressed by a tiny elite corresponded with the development of "state of the art" weaponry and/or tactics, wherein only the state could afford to possess and/or implement them, i.e., it was easy to prevent common folks from having them. During the periods when the "state of the art" weapons became cheap enough for everyone to have one (like the crossbow, or firearms, the latter of which most people underestimate, but is an awesome deterrence to tyranny, even in the modern age, when widely dispersed in the hands of the general population), it became possible for the common folks to gain power over the state, and the middle class in those places grew, taking power from the elite.
The elite in control behind the scenes are always desperately seeking that next major technological advance in weaponry technology that will once again make popular resistance to tyranny impossible due to exclusive state capacity to afford and deploy them within professional armies.
Remote-controlled drone warriors would once again, I believe, tilt the balance of power in the direction of the state (and the unelected elite that rules it from behind the scenes) in a contest with the common folks, bringing in another age where the entire world is ruled despotically by tiny groups of elites in control of state power.
