End Game - Technology | Dystopian Future | Machine Learning | Artificial Intelligence

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[narrator] Up until about 20 years ago

tiny computers, smart phones, instant

messaging and video conferencing

were all fanciful science fiction inventions.

Now they're so ubiquitous we

hardly give them a second thought.

Most of these technologies are good for mankind

but as with everything it can be misused and turned

into nefarious tech that can haunt us our entire lives.

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In the past 50 years, technology has leaped forward from the

transistor radio to cell phones and satellite communication.

Weapons have advanced as well as surveillance systems.

Today anyone can have their 15 minutes of fame

just by streaming a video of themselves worldwide.

We get our news instantly, we can talk globally to anyone

and we have medical inventions to make our lives better.

But in the hands of scrupulous people these same

technologies can be used to track our every move,

motivate us to vote in a specific direction,

invade our bodies and spy on us.

We have become dependent on the

technologies we take for granted

and those technologies are poised

to take over the world we live in

and perhaps make us their minions.

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One of the most relevant theories is that artificial

intelligence may one day take over the world.

An AI takeover is a hypothetical

scenario in which artificial

intelligence becomes the dominant

form of intelligence on Earth.

With computers or robots effectively taking the

control of the planet away from the human species.

Possible scenarios include replacement

of the entire human work force,

takeover by a super intelligent AI

and the popular notion of a robot uprising.

Some public figures such as Stephen Hawking

and Elon Musk have advocated research into

precautionary measures to ensure future super

intelligent machines remain under human control.

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The AI control problem is the issue of how to

build a super intelligent agent that will aid it's

creators and avoid inadvertently building a

super intelligence that will harm its creators.

Some scholars argue that solutions

to the control problem might

also find applications in existing

non-super intelligent AI.

Major approaches to the control problem include alignment,

which aims to align AI goal systems with human values

and capability control which aims to reduce an AI's

systems capacity to harm humans or gain control.

An example of capability control is to research whether a super

intelligent AI could be

successfully combined in an AI box.

According to Bostrom, such

capability control proposals are not

reliable or sufficient to solve the

control problem in the long term

but may potentially act as valuable

supplements to alignment efforts.

Physicist Stephen Hawking, Microsoft founder Bill

Gates and Space X founder Elon Musk have expressed

concerns about the possibility that AI could develop

to the point that humans could not control it.

With Hawking theorizing that this

could spell the end of the human race.

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Stephen Hawking said in 2014 that success in creating

AI would be the biggest event in human history.

Unfortunately it might also be the last

unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

Hawking believed that in the coming decades,

AI could offer incalculable benefits and risks.

Such as technology outsmarting financial

markets, out inventing human researchers,

out manipulating human leaders and developing

weapons that we cannot even understand.

In January 2015, Nick Bostrom joined

Stephen Hawking, Max Tegmark, Elon

Musk, Lord Martin Rees, Jan Tullin

and numerous other AI researchers

in signing the Future of Life

Institute's open letter speaking to the

potential risks and benefits associated

with artificial intelligence.

The signatories believe that research on how to make AI

systems robust and beneficial is both important and timely.

And that there are concrete research

directions that can be pursued today.

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An autonomous car is a vehicle that is capable of sensing

its environment and navigating without human input

and many such vehicles are being developed.

But as of May 2017 automated

cars permitted on public roads are

not yet fully autonomous. They all

require a human driver at the wheel

who is ready at a moments notice to take control of the vehicle.

Among one of the the main obstacles to

widespread adoption of autonomous vehicles are

concerns about the resulting loss of driving

related jobs in the road transport industry.

On March 18, 2018 the first human was killed by an

autonomous vehicle in Arizona by an Uber self driving car.

Self driving cars combine a variety of

sensors to perceive their surroundings,

such as radar, lidar, sonar, gps,

odometry and inertial measurement units.

Advanced control systems interpret

sensory information to identify

appropriate navigation paths as well

as obstacles and relevant signage.

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Connected vehicle platoons and

long distance trucking are seen as

being at the forefront of adopting

and implementing the technology.

PC Magazine defines a self driving car as a

computer controlled car that drives itself.

The Union of Concerned Scientists states

that self driving cars are cars or trucks in

which human drivers are never required to

take control to safely operate the vehicle.

Also known as autonomous or driverless cars. They combine

sensors and software to control, navigate and drive the vehicle.

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Possible technological obstacles for

automated cars are artificial intelligence

is still not able to properly function

in chaotic inner city environments.

A car's computer could potentially be

compromised as could a communication

system between cars. A car could

be hacked and turned into a weapon.

Susceptibility of car sensing and

navigation systems to different types of

weather such as snow or deliberate

interference, included jamming and spoofing.

Avoidance of large animals requires

recognition and tracking and Volvo found

that software suited to caribou, deer

and elk, was ineffective with kangaroos.

Autonomous cars may require very high

quality specialized maps to operate properly.

Were these maps may be out of date they would need

to be able to fall back to reasonable behaviors.

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Competition for the radio spectrum desired

for the cars communication is an issue.

Field programmability for the systems will require careful

evaluation of product development

and the component supply chain

and current road infrastructure may need

changes for automated cars to function optimally.

One may bring up the adage: "Just because you can

do a thing doesn't mean that you should do a thing."

People are wary of self driving cars and often don't trust them.

Due to this and technology factors, we may be a long way

off from seeing a day when all cars are self driving.

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In science fiction we often see the use of nanotechnology.

Tiny robots that can enter the body and

repair cells or accomplish cures to a disease.

But nano particles have been around

since the 50's and recent advancements

makes this something we will see more of today and in the future.

There are several dangers with this kind of technology, though.

Nano particles are likely to be

dangerous for three main reasons.

Nano particles may damage the lungs.

We know that the ultra fine

particles from diesel machines, power

plants and incinerators can cause

considerable damage to human lungs.

This is both because of their size as they

can get deep into the lungs, and also

because they carry other chemicals including

metals and hydrocarbons in with them.

Nano particles can get into the body through

the skin, lungs and digestive system.

This may help create free radicals which

can cause cell damage and damage to the DNA.

There's also concern that once nano particles are in the

bloodstream they'll be able to cross the blood-brain barrier.

The human body has developed a tolerance to most

naturally occurring elements and molecules that it

has contact with. It has no natural immunity to new

substances and is more likely to find them toxic.

There's also the introduction of

nano particles or technology that

could be injected into person allowing

other technologies to track them.

These particles can also be sprayed or introduced into the

environment on the battle field to

track whole armies, or attack them.

The particles then may harm anyone in that environment.

Though there are positive uses for

nanotechnology such as in the medical field,

the introduction of any foreign technology

into the body can be very dangerous.

Vaccines with nanotechnology may attack a virus but

also harm healthy cells within the body or may be used

to track the individual who accepted the vaccine that

can be triggered to make you get sick, even kill you.

Nanotechnology is already a huge industry with billions

of dollars being spent on research and development

worldwide. There's still a great deal to learn about

both the potential benefits and risks of the technology.

Nevertheless, most experts agree that the use of

nano technology in electronics, the pharmaceutical

industry and in areas such as medical imaging is

outstripping our understanding of the OHS risks.

Nano technology could lead to significant

developments in medicine, manufacturing

and computing. However it may also

bring significant new health hazards.

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Tracking American citizens has become

a major issue in the past decade

with the emergence of drones both

in the military and corporate world.

At almost any given time, wherever you are it is likely a

camera is recording your movements, especially in a city.

The combination of surveillance drones and

facial recognition has made this much easier.

Even commercial toy drones have the ability

to follow you simply by looking at you.

Drones have been used to

intentionally cause harm. It's the most

dangerous because they're the bad actors that have

nefarious intentions.

Drones are being used for illicit

activities which include but are

not limited to transport of illegal

drugs, dropping leaflets into NFL

stadiums, dropping contraband such

as drugs, cell phones, cigarettes

and weapons into prison yards. And

in some cases carrying weapons.

In one case a drone helped an inmate

escape from a correctional facility.

To further validate concerns the US military has

identified a number of ways that commercial off the

shelf drones have been weaponized with intentions to

attack US war fighters or military bases over seas.

There are two other complications when it comes to

addressing potential drone threats. First, there's

a combination of 21 federal rules and regulations

prohibiting the use of counter drone technology.

The second issue is that, until recently, drones

were not required to be registered and there is a

large number of unregistered drones which make it

extremely difficult to identify the drone pilot.

This is especially important to identify

friend from foe. Additionally there is

no single counter drone technology that addresses

all the various drone technologies.

One obvious consideration is understanding

the implications of taking down

a drone while flying over people and

the possible injury to those people.

Drones can also be used to spy on you and

combined with other technologies such as

listening devices and IR scanners, they

can watch you and record your movements.

Every new technology comes with the possibility of

being used for undesirable or dangerous purposes.

The future of drones will require a balance of

enabling drones for good, countering drones for

bad and a comprehensive air traffic management system

that encompasses manned and unmanned aircraft.

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Protesters in Hong Kong are taking extraordinary

measures to protect their identities.

That's because facial recognition

technologies in China have been

used to surveil and detain people

suspected of crimes in the region.

Having their faces being recognized by cameras

could have devastating consequences for protesters.

These protesters are using various

techniques to throw off facial recognition

cameras, including lasers that the

cameras can't process or recognize.

Full coverage gas masks and ear wear.

They have put up umbrellas around

cameras to block them and even torn

down facial recognition towers.

Facial recognition is a

polarizing topic and is sometimes

seen as a problematic development

in surveillance capitalism.

People generally don't give

permission or even know they're being

tracked. They also don't know how their faces are being used.

For example, when you walk into most retail stores

there is a security camera there to ward off theft.

However, that camera could be doing much more than warding

off theft. It could use your face for other databases so

the store can market to you and build a behavior profile

that links your in-store activity

with your online activity.

Think about how Amazon built its facial recognition

technology. It curated photos of your online profiles and your

shopping experiences as well as images from its Ring Doorbell

security application and put together a profile of you.

So is security worth giving up your privacy?

The problem is that facial recognition

software is calibrated to white men, therefore

it misidentifies people of color and

especially women of color at alarming rates.

Increasing the risk that certain groups

will be incorrectly associated with crimes.

Currently there are no transparent

rules on how facial recognition data can

be used and how it can be shared. In

some cases it has been ruled as lawful.

It's a lot to hand over your face to unlimited entities

who have not figured out the rules for using that data.

We may never reach the place where our faces determine

our social standing, as is the case in Hong Kong but

will it determine our credit ratings? Our job prospects?

These are degrees of invasion that are still possible.

It's time to protect your privacy

like you were protesting against an

authoritarian government. Think of

it as if your life and the lives of

your family and friends depends on

it. Not to suggest you walk around

with masks on all day but be more

diligent about what you post online.

Share photos and videos of family

and friends on a secure network,

understand that when you buy personal

assistant devices you're giving up

intimate details about your self,

your family and your friends, and you

have no transparency on how those

intimate details are being shared or used.

Put covers on your device cameras and only

uncover them when you're using the camera.

You can't stop cameras from picking up your face and

storing it but you can take control whenever possible.

Businesses and organizations also have an obligation

to their users and customers to protect their rights.

Privacy is one of those fundamental rights, one that we

should enjoy in our digital world

as well as in our physical one.

Without the protection of those rights around

technology like facial recognition, we may end

up in a place both as businesses and individuals

where there is no escape from surveillance

and that sort of dystopia is not the

world we want to live in.

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There should be more regulation around

facial recognition and both as individuals

and organizations we should be fighting

against improper usage of facial recognition.

Get behind some of the facial recognition

legislation that is being proposed. One example

is the Commercial Facial Recognition Privacy

Act of 2019, proposed in Washington, DC.

In which would prohibit commercial users of

facial recognition technology from collecting

and re-sharing data for identifying or

tracking customers without their consent.

Microsoft president Brad Smith has

spoken out in support of the bill.

In the meantime, in the absence

of solid laws, opt for privacy and

be transparent about the way

you allow the use of your data.

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Have you been chipped?

Implementing chips in humans has privacy and security

implications that go well beyond cameras in public places.

Facial recognition, tracking of

our locations, our driving habits,

our spending histories and even beyond ownership of your data.

This topic touches upon your hand, your

heart, your brain and the rest of your body. Literally.

This new development is set to give a very different

meaning to hacking the body or bio hacking.

While cyber experts continue to worry

about protecting critical infrastructure

and mitigating security risks that could

harm the economy or cause a loss of life.

Implanted chips also effect health but add in new

dimensions that conflict with people's religious beliefs.

RFID microchips embedded under the skin with a procedure

that's already cheap and available,

provide a digital interface to the

real world, centered about the holders

identity, credit card information,

bus pass, library card and many other

sources of information you currently

carry in your purse or wallet.

And it can instead be stored on an RFID chip under your skin.

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However getting chipped could be a way to control

you. When guns are paired to the chips in their owners,

revolutionary heroes can no longer break into their

oppressors arsenal to turn their firepower against them.

Putting so much importance on a device

only available to those that seek

it out requires keeping close tabs on

its availability and affordability.

If the advantages effectively disadvantage those who

choose not to participate, gaps between classes may widen.

In a world controlled entirely by chips

within your skin, its possible that hackers

and evil doers could scan and replicate

the data on your chips onto their own,

effectively replacing your physical presence which is

notably different from just stealing digital credentials.

Every Hollywood movie has taught us that

implanted microchips are primarily for big

brother, governments and corporations to

continuously track our every whereabouts.

This is a real concern that needs to be handled with privacy

controls and good security practices from the get go.

In a world where you purchase food with

a chip in your hand, it's not hard to

think that some people might prefer

to use a card in their wallet instead.

However, it's also not hard to imagine a world in which

the benefits of a microchip mandate its usage.

Basically requiring everyone to receive a

microchip, or starve, lose their job, etcetera.

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One of the benefits of a microchip is

it's invisible to those who don't know

about it. Making it harder for thieves and

adversaries to steal your information.

However this advantage is a double edged sword

when you consider that people could potentially

be oblivious to microchips, implanted by others

in themselves while sleeping or unconscious.

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Biblical apocalyptics claim it could be the mark of

the beast indicating the beginning of revelations.

There is currently no government agency that

oversees or controls neuro-electric interface

enhancements, with the closest body

being the FDA due to

its broad jurisdiction over medical devices.

The long term health risks of implanting microchips

in humans is relatively unknown. On one hand

human micro chipping has been green lighted

around the world by various authoritative

bodies, including the FDA in America.

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It may seem we live in a science

fiction world, after all we have a space

station in orbit. We've been to the

moon and new advanced satellites bring

us information from around the planet.

But that world could turn out to be

a dystopian empire where the population

is controlled and herded in line.

At the conclusion of the June 1992 United Nations

Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro,

Brazil. President George H. W. Bush and the leaders of

177 other nations signed a document known as agenda 21.

At the time it was seen as a perfectly sensible

planning paper. A non-binding statement

of intent aimed at dealing with sustainability

on an increasingly crowded planet.

But in the 22 years since that day,

at the hands of groups like the John

Birch society, Agent 21 has been

transformed in much of the American

public's mind into a secret plot to

impose a totalitarian world government.

A nefarious effort to crush freedom

in the name of environmentalism.

Some say Agenda 21 will lead to a new Dark Ages

of pain and misery yet unknown to mankind. It is

a comprehensive plan of utopian environmentalism,

social engineering and global political control.

The most dangerous threat to America's sovereignty

yet and technology will make it possible.

It will make our nation a vassal of the UN,

result in the destruction of our lives, force

rural areas, populations to be decimated and

lead to having 90% of the

population murdered. The end these

critics all agree will be the imposition of a collectivist

world government.

Several politicians are aware of the agenda with

state and local authorities passing legislation

to ban it. The list of fears include one-world

currency, one religion if any, one military, no

private property, no family units, mandatory

vaccines, microchips for everyone, social credit

systems, 5G monitoring and the government raising

your children and controlling all the schools.

People would not be able to own cars or businesses as everything

will be managed either by corporations or governments.

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In an Agenda 21 world you would have to be

micro chipped so the technology could track

you. What you buy and where you go would

depend on your compliance with the agenda.

Technology would track your every

move with facial recognition,

microchips, drones and other sophisticated tracing science.

All of the technology needed to do this is already in play

now with more new technologies being developed every year.

We are all moving toward a one-world

government faster than previously predicted.

The increasing use of drones for commercial

purposes has become one of the biggest emerging

threats to the future of airplane safety according

to Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty.

The expected rise in the use of drones or unmanned

aerial vehicles for a host of different applications may

leave operators exposed to a whole new set of risks

including third party damage or injury and liability.

One of the biggest risks, it said, was

from radio frequency interference

resulting in loss of control and in worse case scenario,

fatalities.

Other problems include invasion or privacy,

aerial surveillance and data collection.

Privacy advocates contend that with drones, the

government will be able to engage in widespread

pervasive surveillance because drones are cheaper

to operate than their manned counterparts.

Drones are being used by law enforcement

and border control surveillance teams in case

of essential supplies, however, drones are

not being used exclusively by good guys.

In case of natural disasters, search and rescue teams employ

them to gather information, or to drop essential supplies.

However, drones are not being used exclusively by good guys.

Bad guys are leveraging drones to achieve

their malicious objectives, being

easy to control, drones can be

used to perform different attacks.

The reliance on wireless communications

make drones vulnerable to various

attacks. These attacks can have

drastic effects including commercial

and non-commercial losses. In this

context there is a lack of proper

understanding on how hackers perform

their attacks and hijack a drone

in order to intercept it or even crash it. In

fact, drones can also be compromised for malicious

purposes hence there is a need to detect them

and prevent them from causing any damage.

With a drone you could be followed anywhere and tracked,

military drones are already being deployed on the

battlefield for surveillance. It would be a simple

step to bring them home and use them to track citizens.

In August of 2018 a drone led assassination attempt was

foiled when two drones wrapped with explosives were used

to assassinate the Venezuelan President. They were shot

down by snipers, injuring eight soldiers and one civilian.

Actually, drones are being used by

insurgents and terrorists alike.

Drones were used by ISIS to drop

bombs and to film propaganda videos in

conflict zones such as the targeting

of Iraq and Syrian military personnel.

Being quiet and performing at altitude, you would

never know if you were being observed by a drone.

Justification for surveillance of citizens

are in court cases now around the country.

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Many futuristic weapons are already being

used on the battlefield today. The military

is always poised for advanced weapons

systems and developing new weapons yearly.

The XM-25 grenade launcher is

equipped with a laser range finder and

on board computer. It packs a

magazine of four 25mm projectiles and

programs them to detonate as they

pass by their targets. That feature

will allow soldiers to strike

enemies who are taking cover.

By 2012 the army has armed every infantry squad and

special forces unit with at least one of the big guns.

In August a lucky soldier got to pull

the trigger and fire off an HEAB high

explosive air burst round at the Aberdeen

testing ground in Maryland. Those

projectiles pack quiet a punch. They

were purposely 300% more effective than

normal ammo and will be able to strike

targets as far as 2300 feet away.

Remotely operated weapons are showing up everywhere. Israel is

building an automated kill zone.

An American firm, Moore Industries,

offers turret that can aim and

fire two automatic shotguns. Some

robots have been defusing bombs for

years but none have seen combat.

According to Lieutenant General Rick Lynch who believes that 122

men could have been spared if combat robots had been working.

There was a set of armed robots sent to Iraq. They never fired

a shot, however. They weren't

allowed to. No one could guarantee

that the robots wouldn't go berserk

and mow down friendly troops

or otherwise malfunction even

though they have lots of safeguards.

Considering how much firepower they pack, safeguards

are really important. The MARS system can be

equipped with four grenade launchers and a machine

gun that packs 400 rounds of 7.62 caliber ammunition.

But it's manufacturers like to

point out its less lethal capabilities.

Instead of mowing people down, it

can stick to the fine print of the

first law of robotics and fire tear

gas canisters, smoke grenades, smoke

bombs and perhaps even tasers upcoming

40mm people zapper projectile.

Three were deployed in Iraq last year.

The active denial system fires a beam

of millimeter wave radiation. It makes

people feel like their skin is burning

without causing any permanent damage.

Though promising as a nonlethal weapon,

the pain rate has some serious limits.

On a rainy day water droplets will

disperse the beam and it may feel warm and

refreshing instead of frightening, on a

hot day the cooling system might give out.

The problems don't stop there. Ratheon's

baby is bulky and despite repeated

requests to send it into battle, shipments

of the energy weapon have been delayed.

The military is looking for a strong lighter weapon.

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If troops spot someone suspicious approaching them, they can

use the long range acoustic

device to send a warning message.

It fires narrow beams of sound waves that can be heard

clearly from about 1000 feet away. Crank up the power and

it can emit a warning tone so loud that anyone in its

path would have no choice but to cover their ears and run.

The manufacturer doesn't like to call these

devices weapons even though they've been used

to repel pirates. Cops used them to harass

protesters at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh.

Drones are arguably the most

controversial weapon in the war on

terror. By some accounts they

are deeply feared by the Taliban.

They've taken out Al-Qaeda and Taliban

leaders and their sound when flying low is a

constant annoyance and reminder of their

menace. But they also kill a lot of civilians.

They are, however, far more cost effective than

supersonic fighter jets. Predators can pack two Hell

Fire missiles. Their big brothers, Reapers, can hold

four Hell Fires and up to two 500 pound bombs.

Flash bang grenades were designed to stun

people but they have a pretty bad safety record.

The little bombs have dismembered at least one

soldier and caused hearing loss in others.

To remedy that problem, Mark Grubelich and his colleagues

at Sandia National Laboratory built the improved flash bang

grenade. It hurls flaming aluminum particles into the air

causing a bright flash without an accompanying shock wave.

Even the angriest mobs would probably

think twice about trying to pass a

taser shock wave barrier. It's the less

lethal equivalent of a claymore mine.

Push the big red button and it will fire 24 electrified

probes at the same time in a single direction.

After learning about an

experimental weapon that can make

people feel seasick, Limor Fried

and Phil Torrone more decided to

build their own. They did it for less than $250 dollars and

wrote step by step instructions so anyone can make one at home.

It can cause a nauseating light show with 36 pulsating LED's.

Now if you're worried that someones about

to attack you, but not completely sure of

their intent, it's a good idea to give

them a warning before pulling the trigger.

Green laser pointers are a great way to extend that courtesy.

The marines like to call them ocular interruption devices.

Shine one in someone's face and your target should

immediately get the message that it's time to back off.

The LA9P made by B. E. Meyers can warn

people from up to 2 and a half miles away.

It fires a 250 milliwatt beam.

That's roughly one fourth the strength smallest

anti-aircraft lasers.

Even so, you've got to be careful when

handling the thing. Over a few months

in Iraq, a dozen soldiers were

wounded in dazzler friendly fire.

Several troops may have been injured

while monkeying around with laser target

disintegrators which are substantially

more powerful than the less lethal devices.

And behold the Laser Avenger. A cannon that can be used

to take down incoming enemy aircraft. Boeing was able

to shoot a drone down out of the sky with a Hummer mounted

laser even though it's not particularly high powered.

It cooked the remote control aircraft

using a somewhat feeble one-kilowatt beam.

More recently, the company shot down another UAV using

a low-powered laser paired with its mobile active

targeting resource for integrated experiments or

matrix system during a test in White Sands, New Mexico.

Northrop Grumman is hard at work on

a 100 kilowatt laser weapon which

could do far more damage but it's

not quiet ready for prime time.

It's fully operational but looks like a refrigerator.

Boeing announced in December that the

Avenger has been used to destroy 50 different

improvised explosive devices during tests at

Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama.

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Science fiction has always been a median for futuristic

imagination. And while different colored aliens and

intergalactic travel are yet to be

discovered, there is an array of technologies that are no longer

figments of the imagination thanks

to the world of science fiction.

Some of the creative inventions

that have appeared in family favorite

movies like Back to the Future and

Total Recall are now at the forefront

of modern technology.

While exploring space, characters such as Captain

Kirk and Spock would come across alien life who spoke a different

language. To understand the galactic

foreigners the Star Trek characters

used a device that immediately

translated the aliens' unusual language.

Star Trek's Universal Communicator

was first seen on screen as Spock

tampered with it in order to communicate

with a non-biological entity.

Although the idea in Star Trek was to

communicate with intelligent alien life, a device

capable of breaking down language barriers

would revolutionize real time communication.

Now products such as SourceNex Pocket

Talk and Skype's new voice translation

services are capable of providing

instantaneous translation between languages.

Flawless real-time communication is far off but the technological

advancements over the last decade

mean this feat is within reach.

The idea behind beaming someone up was

that a person could be broken down into

an energy form and then converted

back into matter at their destination.

Transporting people this way on Star

Trek's USS Enterprise had been around

since the very beginning of the

series, debuting in the pilot episode.

Scientists haven't figured out how to transport humans

yet but they can teleport balls of energy known

as photons. In this case teleportation is based

on a phenomenon know as quantum entanglement.

This refers to a condition in quantum mechanics where

two entangled particles may be very far from

one another yet remain connected so that actions

performed on one effect the other regardless of distance.

The information exchange between the two photons occurs

at least 10,000 times faster than the speed of light.

Not long into the first Star Wars movie, Obi-Wan Kenobi

receives a holographic message. By definition, a hologram is

a 3D image created from the

interference of light beams from a

laser onto a 2D surfaces and can only be seen in one angle.

In 2018, researchers from Brigham Young University

in Utah created a real hologram. Their technique

called volumetric display works like an Etch-a-Sketch

toy but uses particles at high speeds.

With lasers, researchers can trap particles and move them

into a designated shape while another set of lasers emit red,

green and blue light into the particle and create an image.

But so far this can only happen on extremely small scales.

After losing his hand Luke Skywalker

receives a bionic version that has all the

functions of a normal hand. This scenario

is now more feasible than the previous one.

Researchers from the Georgia University of

Technology in Atlanta, Georgia have been developing a

way for amputees to control each of their

prosthetic fingers using an ultra sonic sensor.

In the movie Skywalker's prosthesis uses electromagnetic

sensors attached to his muscles. The sensors

can be switched into different modes and are controlled

by the flexing or contracting of his muscles.

The prosthesis created by the Georgia

Tech researchers, however, uses machine

learning and ultra sound signals to

detect fine finger by finger movement.

Orbiting Earth in 2001 a Space Odyssey is Space

Station V, a large establishment located in

low Earth orbit where astronauts can bounce

around in micro gravity. Does this sound familiar?

The Space Station V provided inspiration for

the International Space Station which has

been orbiting the Earth since 1998 and currently

accommodates up to 6 astronauts at a time.

Although Space Station V appears much more luxurious

the ISS has accomplished much more science.

The ISS has been fundamental in microgravity

research since the start of its construction in 1998.

Tablets are wonderful hand held computers that can

be controlled at the press of a finger. These handy

devices are used by people across the globe and even

further upwards in the International Space Station.

Apple claims to have invented the

tablet with the release of its iPad.

However, Samsung made an extremely

interesting case in court that Apple

was wrong. Stanley Kubrick and Sir

Arthur C. Clarke did it by including the device in the

in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey"

released in 1968. In the film,

Dr. David Bowman and Dr. Frank Poole watch news updates from

their flat screen computers which they called news pads.

Samsung claimed that these news pads were the original tablet

featured in a film over 40 years before

the first iPad arrived in 2010.

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We may even be closer to an actual warp

drive for space travel. An ion thruster

or ion drive is a form of electric

propulsion used for space craft propulsion.

It creates thrust by accelerating

ions using electricity.

This engine was used on Deep Space

One and the Dawn NASA spacecraft.

A plasma propulsion engine is a type of electric propulsion

that generates thrust from a quasi-neutral plasma.

While most plasma engines are

still confined to the laboratory,

some have been actively flying and used on missions.

As of 2011, NASA partnered with the aerospace

company Busek and launched the first Hall Effect

thruster, aboard the TacSat-2 satellite. The

thruster was the satellite's main propulsion system.

Actual warp drive is still far into the future,

but as more of these advanced propulsion

systems are developed, the idea is not only

feasible but now we know it can actually be done.

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Shrouded in mystery, the existence of a secret

space program is a closely guarded secret.

But information from government whistle blowers, intelligence

operatives, and former astronauts

have been surfacing for decades.

In 2020, America launched the Space

Force, a new branch of the US Military.

Along with the Air Force the new Space Force will

be in charge of all military needs in outer space.

Many question the need for such a program.

We already had the Space Command

department of the Air Force. Some speculate

the need may be a fear of extra terrestrial

invasion or influence on the planet.

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Technology already exists for the new space force to take

over. For example, the X37B Space Plane is now in use.

Much like the old space shuttles, the X37B

can be tasked with several secret missions.

Though it is unmanned, or so we are told.

The strange thing about this space

plane, is that its mission is top secret.

No one apart from a tiny handful of top military

experts know what the aircraft is tasked to do.

What we do know is that the aircraft,

also known as an orbital test vehicle,

will deploy a satellite into orbit and

also test power beaming technology.

The small plane is unmanned, which

means there are no astronauts

on board the vehicle. It is controlled remotely from Earth.

It is able to fly back down to

Earth and land on a runway like a

standard airplane. Meaning it

can be re-launched over and over.

The pentagon, a top military building where

America's most senior military officials

work, has revealed very few details

about the aircraft's missions in the past.

Although it is often referred to as

a spy plane, the US Air Force has

never confirmed if the rocket is

monitoring other countries or satellites.

Some experts have previously said it would

be difficult to monitor other satellites. It

should be noted also that China has a secret

space vehicle but little is known about it.

We may never know what the secret mission really is.

But the secret space program goes much deeper than

just one spy plane.

Rumors have persisted for decades that the

USA has such a program. Allegedly it began

after the Roswell incident, when America

came into possession of alien technology.

There are those who claim we have

already been to the moon

in the 1950's and the NASA program

was only for public consumption.

Whistle blowers have said we have

time travel technology, we've been

to Mars and there is even a base on the moon and Mars.

Further down the rabbit hole, is rumors that we

actually fought a war with aliens,

and the secret space program is

in place to protect us from them.

With Russian inspector

satellites largely believed to be

orbital weapons platforms and China now beginning to field

its own maneuverable unmanned orbital platforms that can

also be used to disrupt our nation's satellite capabilities,

it's clear today the United States is

finding ways to fight future wars in space.

At least as far as non-classified programs go.

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Despite harsh statements made by both Russian and Chinese

government officials regarding America's space force.

Each of those nations has already maintained

space based branches of their own for years.

In fact, even America once had a secretive

Department of Defense space program

complete with its own military astronauts.

A 3.3 billion California based space port

meant for secretive space shuttle

launches into polar orbit and more.

The Endeavor was called the manned space flight engineer

program, and although it hasn't gotten much attention

in the years since, the pentagon invested billions

of dollars into it throughout the 1970's and 80's.

A secret group of 32 men was selected

from the U.S. Air Force

and trained as astronauts completely

independent of their peers at NASA.

The specialized training revolved

around deploying classified payloads

and conducting other secretive

activities in orbit using America's

space shuttle as the primary orbital

platform. In fact, at one time,

the DOD intended to fly more

shuttle flights per year than NASA.

[laid back music]

Black Star is the reported codename of a secret

United States orbital space plane system.

The possible existence of the Black Star program was reported

in March of 2006 by Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine.

The magazine reported that the program had been under way since

at least the early 1990's and that

the impetus for Black Star was

to allow the United States government

to retain orbital reconnaissance

capabilities jeopardized following

the 1986 Challenger disaster.

The article also said the United States Air

Force Space Command was unaware of Black Star.

Suggesting it was operated by an intelligence

agency or some other secret space program.

Aviation Week speculated that such a

space craft could also have offensive

military capabilities. A concept

colloquially known as the space bomber.

The magazine also stated that it was likely

that Black Star would be moth balled,

although it is unclear whether this is

due to a cost or failure of the program.

[dramatic music]

A secret space program was revealed

to the worldwide public following

allegations against Gary McKinnon for

hacking the US Defense programs in 2002.

In an interview televised on the BBC, McKinnon

stated that he was able to get into the

military's network simply by using a computer

code familiar to computer administrators.

In his interview with the BBC he also

stated of the disclosure project that "They

are some very credible relied upon people

all saying yes. There is UFO technology.

There's anti-gravity, there's free

energy and it's extra terrestrial

in origin and they've captured space

craft and reverse engineered it."

He said he investigated a NASA photographic expert's claim

that at the Johnson Space Center's building 8, images were

regularly cleaned of evidence of UFO craft and he confirmed

this comparing the raw originals with the processed images.

He stated to have viewed a detailed image of

something not man made and cigar shaped, floating

above the northern hemisphere and assuming his viewing

would be undisrupted owing to the hour, he did

not think of capturing the image because he was

bedazzled and therefore did not think of securing

it with a screen capture function in the software

at the point his connection was interrupted.

McKinnon described the cigar shaped space craft in

rudimentary terms but with some notable features

that paralleled other witnesses description of

an existing cylindrical space craft.

[tense music]

One of the most interesting things about this

was a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet he came

across with 20-30 names of government officials

that was titled "Non-terrestrial officers".

What's more intriguing, according to reports McKinnon

also discovered an unusual list of US Navy vessels.

But cross checking against the

active list of surface ships and

submarines, McKinnon could not find those

names on the current US Navy roster.

What does this mean? The list of non-terrestrial

officers is alleged by many UFO researchers

to be the names of US Navy and Air Force

officers who are serving on ships off the Earth.

That's to say they are assigned to interplanetary vessels.

Additionally, the names of the ships that he found are

actually the names of interplanetary

spaceships currently in service.

[tense music]

Is it possible we have an active interplanetary space force

already being utilized for the protection of the Earth?

We certainly have the technology to build and

maintain such a force. The key would

be in the billions allocated to the

dark military budget in the USA.

With enough money, you could build several

fleets and the black budget has plenty.

[ominous music]

Technology has the power to do many things

and changing the world is one of them.

We're privileged to live in a time where

science and technology can assist us,

make our lives easier and rethink

the ways we go about our daily lives.

The technology we're already exposed and accustomed

to has paved the way for us to innovate further and

this list of current and future technologies certainly

have the potential to change our lives even more.

We may even be closer to that flying

car you were promised as a child.

They do exist today.

However, with all innovations it

will depend on what we do with them.

They can either enhance our lives and make the

world a better place to live or we may find ourselves

in a dystopian future where we are ruled and

controlled by the very technologies we rely on.

That is up to us and how we manage an ever

changing world with advanced technology.

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