Posted on 12/06/2014 5:55:58 AM PST by Enlightened1
The Army doesn't have an Iron Man suit. Yet. But the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Warrior Web program is a step closer to developing a soft, low-powered exosuit that will augment the physical capabilities of soldiers. Worn under the uniform, the proposed suit will allow troops to carry 100-plus pounds of equipment without risking the joint and back injuries that typically accumulate in the field.
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Not good - if DARPA is close then that must mean some rogue russian scientist has just about completed one as well in his back room. At least that is what I learned from the movies.
Call of Duty advance warfare
“I’m sorry. I’m not Tony Stark.”
It's the character of the developers. I'm not buying the “oh its good...its going to be safe...” crap.
Although I will admit the A.I. is alarming. Even Stephen Hawking's was warning last week that this A.I. could eventually eliminate the human race. You know, like a real life Skynet from the movie The Terminator type of scenario. LOL!
It sounds crazy, but with development of the Quantum chip.... That's going to change everything in 9 years.
I think the combination of AI and nanobots would be a game changer. Once you have even a rudimentary intelligence that has the capability to evolve itself, watch out. With those ingredients, the potential exists to accelerate evolution by millions of years in weeks, then hours, and eventually....seconds.
Humanity wouldn’t stand a chance.
The recent movie “Transcendence” (with Johnny Depp) was pretty bad, but I think it got the basics right with respect to how out of control the technology could get.
New DARPA ‘toy’
So, DARPA is only three years behind he Japanese although the Japanese are developing theirs as help for elderly care nurses.
Exosuits:
Robots:
http://www.tokyotimes.com/japan-develops-robot-industry-for-the-elderly-care/
Yep it’s all about the Transistors....
Back in 1880 when Thomas Edison developed the first light bulb. I don’t think he or anyone else at that time, in their wildest imaginations, would envisioned what has transpired with technology over the last 134 years.
IMO once the A.I. merges with Quantum chips it’s indeed a game changer. We have advanced so fast in the last 134 years compared to the previous 5000 years. Well once again we will repeat this.
What we have accomplished over the last 50 years we will do it in 5 years with the first generation quantum chip. 5 years from that point what took us 50 years to develop we will achieve it in 3 months. This is Assuming the Moore’s law that microchips processing will double every 6 months. Although humans will not be able to keep up. What will speed everything is like you mentioned the Nano Tech. The Drones (not just military applications), the Robots (driving our trucks, ships, piloting our commercial airlines), the Cloud (a satellite system much like our GPS today) that will mean anyone can go online at high speeds. It will not matter if they are in the Arctic or in the jungle of the Amazon.
What I have mentioned above is all predicted by MIT graduate Ray Kurzweil, The Director in Engineering at Google, in 2029. That’s only 15 years from now. You remember where you were 15 years ago? I do, and it was not that long ago.
Like you my main concern with this changing world is if the A.I. find us, the human race, obsolete.
The problem, and opportunity, is that change is exponential.
It’s really difficult for humans to really think in exponential terms. We tend to project what we perceive as the present rate of change into the future.
But of course the actual rate of change is increasing dramatically, so the results are always much more dramatic than we expect.
“Back in 1880 when Thomas Edison developed the first light bulb. I don’t think he or anyone else at that time, in their wildest imaginations, would envisioned what has transpired with technology over the last 134 years.”
Somewhere I read a snippet from a well known scientist back in the late 1890’s or early 1900’s claiming everything thing that has been invented has already been invented. And expect nothing more—basically.
But will it run Windows?
The question is will it be a benevolent robotic dictatorship like Asimov predicted in his series of stories of robotics (and adapted for the “I, Robot” movie), or will it be more malevolent like “The Terminator”/”The Matrix”?
“Somewhere I read a snippet from a well known scientist back in the late 1890’s or early 1900’s claiming everything thing that has been invented has already been invented. And expect nothing more—basically.”
I believe that there was a proposal to close the patent office for that reason at one time.
So we have light infantry, motorized infantry (Strykers), mech infantry (Bradley), mobile infantry (101st) and airborne infantry (82nd). To that we are now adding heavy infantry??
Solar powered ?
Good, now female warriors will be able to keep up. </s
LOL! That was my first thought. These suits should be issued to the women warriors, but then I continued to think about it. LOL!
All assumes that the gibsmedat tail the cutting edge drags along will not overwhelm it and burn the books again. Until humankind learns to leave its dark side behind, a dark age is always a possibility.
Culturally, the people in the US are a coarser, more self-centered, and more openly prurient version of our society 50 years ago.
We can't outrun human nature any more than we can outrun our own sweat.
I am reminded of ancient skulls with clear indications of multiple neurosurgeries. Who knows how far we have been dragged back, or how often? We only have the history that was preserved, or that we have been able to glean from ruins.
Without geological or cosmic cataclysm, we still have humanity to contend with, and in the words of Walt Kelley, "We have met the enemy and he is us."
Like you my main concern with this changing world is if the A.I. find us, the human race, obsolete.
Considering humanity's past, that is a distinct possibility, as is the possibility of insanity in the AIs, from dealing with humans. It would be ironic that we thus might plant the seeds of our own destruction.
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