War In The Age

Unfortunately somewhere along the line I became mixed up in which reading was when however War In The Age showed up as a new reading and I had yet to digest it so I thought now would be an appropriate time to tackle it. 

War In The Age shows an interesting "robot historian" perspective with regards to modern AI and military applications. Though the prospect is interesting I believe this one sided view is a bit short towards a more a down to earth (architectural) problem involving both AI and robots; the 'use the robot because it's a robot' syndrome. 

Both algorithmic and robot fabrication technologies have broad applique, however I find more and more projects being tuned for the robot rather than by the robot. I understand this has little to do with military applications since the military has great motivation to utilize the full potential of robotic tools, my question is whether architecture holds this same potential.

Either way the notion of utilizing robots for the sake that they are a robot troubles me, it seems like an added complication towards a process which is already very complex. This, however, is only an outsiders perspective and as I learn more about generative processes perhaps my ideology will evolve.