Some of that seems like science fiction.
http://www.businessinsider.com/companies-funded-by-cia-2016-9
Cylance is using artificial intelligence to analyze and kill malware well before it becomes a problem.
Orbital Insight analyzes the millions of satellite images being beamed back to Earth to answer all kinds of interesting questions.
Cyphy built a tethered drone that can monitor an area for days at a time.
BlueLine Grid made a communication platform similar to Slack with security and compliance in mind.
Atlas Wearables created a fitness tracker that actually knows the specific exercise you are performing.
Fuel3d can capture highly-detailed three dimensional imagery of rooms, objects, or people.
MindMeld is building voice recognition technology like Siri — for everything.
SnapDNA has a handheld device that can analyze DNA in minutes.
Sonitus offers a wireless, two-way communications capability hidden inside the mouth.
Palantir sifts through massive data sets to allow a user to track patterns or gain valuable insight from one software package, instead of looking into a bunch of different databases.
BBN Technologies allows troops overseas to quickly translate foreign languages.
Keyhole was a tiny 3d mapping startup with technology so useful it is still on most smartphones in the world today.
Basis Technology can extract critical information from documents written in a foreign language.
Oculis Labs stops people from spying on your computer screen.
Yeah, and that’s just the technology they are willing to talk about...
Sufficiently advanced technology is like magic.
The tech described in those articles is natural extension or application of garden variety stuff. Not that I don;t marvel at the creativity and execution. I remember balsa/rubber band planes as a kid, those were pretty swift, and the Cox glo-plug tethered planes, real engines! Now a kid can have a remote control drone with wireless camera to fly around the house.
"Romper, stomper, bomper boo. Tell me, tell me, tell me, do.
Magic Mirror, tell me today, did all my friends have fun at play?"
Now reality.
That’s quite a list. I was definitely born in the wrong era, all this crap makes me ill.