Did you think Metal Storm was good?
How about strapping that puppy onto a robot chassis to create a super-kickass combat robot?
PCU “U.S.S. Independence” - very cool!
I love new military tech - and especially new weapon systems. This article is light on specs but the ship is definitely bad ass!
Noice!
It’s all beginning to come together …
If you didn’t think we would have bionics or cybernetics, I think a crucial building block has just been achieved.
You thought Real-Time was fast? Try Faster-Than-Real-time!
The US Military is now commissioning “Predictive Science” experts to perform testing on exactly that.
While I had theorized that since moves to integrate modern battlefield communications would possibly allow 1st world forces to get closer to real-time strategic planning (Command, Control, Communication -C3) and that given the rate of progress made in CPU processing power, parallel processing and possible emergence of real Artificial Intelligence, it was only a matter of time before “Faster Than Real Time” battle field communications could push the bar even higher and lead the armed forces to a truly integrated C4I (Command, Control, Communication, Computers & Intelligence) system.
How do we remember?
Scientists are getting closer to knowing the mechanics of our memory. As our intelligence is in large part due to our recollection of bits of data (dates, people, events) this could be a breakthrough in allowing the human race to make the next big step along the evolutionary ladder.
The paradigm of limited organic recall (and 80-ish year lifespans) may be at an end. The human body as a vehicle for our time travel from present to future may just be in line for some major upgrades.
The Future Soldier!
What direction can the infantry soldier go as we head into the future? Is there even room left for the simple blood and flesh infantryman?
With the growing increase in drone usage and other tools which may prevent the loss of life, is the infantry-man a dying breed?
Should we continue to invest money and research into improving the individual soldier? This program has been cancelled once before, so does that make the limited reinstatement a good expediture of defense budgets?
What’s cooler than railguns? Why lasers of course!
While the progression of computing power has followed a relatively predictable course it was only a matter of time that laser output would increase to the “magical” weapon levels (100KW).
Is this a good thing? Are ray guns a move forward in our desire to kill more and more efficiently?A pandora’s box that any / many scientific breakthroughs have ended up becoming?
And more importantly is this yet another factor in the birth of Skynet?
Wired
Bionic - how about synthetic?
It’s good to see parallel development on synthetic muscle replacements continuing. While bionics and other mechanical replacements may be nice - I don’t think anyone will disagree that nothing beats real or even synthetic muscle. While the idea of being a cyborg or bionic might be fanciful in the short term I think reality will step in for most people and realization that functionally speaking - the natural design of the human body really would be difficult to improve upon - all things aside.
4 gigabytes.
That is the amount of ram that I have in my most powerful gaming computer.
EVGA 780i mobo
Intel C2D E8400 (Wolfdale)
2x 500gb 7,200 rpm (RAID0)
EVGA 8800gtx
Benq 24″ LCD monitor (1,920×1,200)
Acer 22″ LCD monitor (1,680×1,050)
Win Vista Business 64bit (to use the 4gb ram)
Pretty nice right? OK so enough of the Epeening.
I thought that was something I should bring up since technology is moving rapidly forward and my 4×1gb ram is soon going to be dwarfed by the 1×1tb -and that’s tb as in terabyte!
I remember not so long ago I was using 640kb and was impressed when they found a way to access upper memory between 640kb and 1mb - DOS 5 or 6 I think it was. It just makes me wonder what else I will see in my / our lifetime(s)!