FmH readers know I am a fan of fellow traveller and Wired contributing editor Steve Silberman’s writing. This new piece is, he wrote me, “the first look inside a new Pentagon-sponsored training program for soldiers headed to Iraq and elsewhere that immerses them in highly realistic virtual environments designed by Hollywood special effects artists.” Silberman’s article on this unholy alliance is all about the romance of the advanced technology being used and the cost savings to the Pentagon, which won’t have to waste so much ammunition in live fire exercises anymore. What I would have liked to see, and what is virtually absent from the piece, is something about the moral compunctions I imagine some of the Hollywood or computer-geek types might have about contributing to the war machine. Or are my expectations about a generation behind? Steve?