– Elon Musk Launches Company To Hook Up People To Computers:
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The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve nor will he ever receive either. – Benjamin Franklin
H/t reader squodgy:
“This is a video of a brilliant English design for a Commuter Inter-City Flyer.
And it worked well….but the forward thinking British “government” thought otherwise…..as usual…just as with Whittle’s Jet Engine!
I was fortunate enough to see it fly.”
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– Mini-nukes and mosquito-like robot weapons being primed for future warfare
While it may be the stuff of science fiction today, the advancement of nanotechnology in the coming years will make it a bigger threat to humanity than conventional nuclear weapons, according to an expert. The U.S., Russia and China are believed to be investing billions on nanoweapons research.
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“Nanobots are the real concern about wiping out humanity because they can be weapons of mass destruction,” said Louis Del Monte, a Minnesota-based physicist and futurist. He’s the author of a just released book entitled “Nanoweapons: A Growing Threat To Humanity.”
According to Del Monte, nanoweapons are much smaller than a strand of human hair and the insect-like nanobots could be programmed to perform various tasks, including injecting toxins into people or contaminating the water supply of a major city. Another scenario he suggested the nanodrone could do in the future is fly into a room and drop a poison onto something, such as food, to presumably target a particular individual.
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As for the mini-nukes, Del Monte expects they represent “the most horrific near-term nanoweapons.”
Nanotechnology opens up the possibility to manufacture mini-nuke components so small that they are difficult to screen and detect. Furthermore, the weapon (capable of an explosion equivalent to about 100 tons of TNT) could be compact enough to fit into a pocket or purse and weigh about 5 pounds and destroy large buildings or be combined to do greater damage to an area.
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– This House Was 3D-Printed In Under 24 Hours At A Cost Of Just $10,000:
While 3D-printing may have been faded away in recent years from the spotlight of core “disruptive” technologies, that may soon change again after a company managed to 3D-print an entire house in just 24 hours. Located in Russia, the following 400-square-foot home, or 37 square meters, was built in just a day, at a cost of slightly over $10,000.
As profiled in the Telegraph, the company Apis Cor, 3D-printing specialists based in Russia and San Francisco, built the house using a mobile printer on-site. According to the company, the walls of the building were printed and painted in just 24 hours.
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– Boston Dynamics reveals ‘nightmare-inducing’ new robot Handle
H/t reader squodgy:
“And on and on and on.
Once again it is only the Alternative Media who raise the alarm.
I wonder when Google (who own Boston Dynamics) will re-name them SKYNET?”
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H/t reader squodgy:
“The revival of the Alaskan HAARP for the control of weather AND tectonic plate disruption is now officially up and running again, and currently aimed at Zealand.”
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H/t reader squodgy:
“The principles of nano-particle smart dust geo engineering has been highlighted by Dane Wiginton for years, but, as time advances, the technology does too, highlighting the probability of our exposure to ever more destructive clouds.
Time to buy breathing masks….the Japanese wear them openly.
Smart Dust – The Future of Involuntary Treatment of the Public:
Smart dust is a name given to extremely small computing particles, RFID chips, or other very small technologies.
A popular article from Extreme Tech describes it in the headline: “Smart dust: A complete computer that’s smaller than a grain of sand.” An article from War is Boring is titled “Future Military Sensors Could Be Tiny Specks of ‘Smart Dust’ New technologies allow for extremely small—and ubiquitous—military sensors.” A paper from University of California, San Diego describes smart dust:
“The term “smart dust” originally referred to miniature wireless semiconductor devices made using fabrication techniques derived from the microelectronics industry. These devices incorporate sensing, computing and communications in a centimetre-sized package.”
It is promoted as an eventuality, that smart dust will cover streets and buildings to identify people, that people will have smart dust in their bodies, and other things in mainstream television and media. They paint a utopian, blissful picture of it.
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You can’t make this stuff up!
– Five Trillion Dollar Plan to Save the Arctic Ice
H/t reader kevin a.
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– Meet The “Bionic Barrista” Whose Mission Is To Terminate Millions Of Minimum Wage Jobs:
Tired of your barista giving you attitude, spitting in your coffee if you only mention Trump, or misspelling your name on your morning cup of joe? Surely a robot could do better. Well, we are about to find out, because on Monday, Cafe X opened its very first robotic cafe in San Francisco’s Metreon shopping center Digital Trends reports. Promising “precision crafted specialty coffee in seconds, the way the roaster intended,” Cafe X thinks that anything a human can do, its machines can do better. Or rather just one machine.
Nicknamed Gordon, after a Cafe X employee, this robot mans, or robots, two standard professional coffee machines in order to serve up espressos and lattes. In the San Francisco location, customers can grab a cup of coffee with beans from AKA Coffee, Verve Coffee Roasters, or Peet’s. While the coffee itself may not make Cafe X stand out from the competition, the startup hopes that the robot’s efficiency and utility will.