Was “Oblivion” a prophecy? The chilling reality of today’s drone warfare.

In this episode, I reflect on recent news from the war in Ukraine, where a large share of casualties now come from drones. Reports also mention new “thermal invisibility cloaks” designed to hide body heat from drone sensors.The situation reminded me of the film Oblivion—not for its action scenes, but for how its imagined future seems to be appearing in real life, long before the beautiful parts of that world could ever exist.This episode is a quiet look at how technologies once seen only in science fiction—autonomous drones, stealth gear, machine surveillance—are becoming part of reality, and how human imagination often precedes what later takes shape in the real world.