Yup...good point. First our guns and then our ability to move freely about the country to asscape the damn zombies (and they are coming, have no doubt about it).
They're already here too - saw one the other day. It asked me for $5 but I knew it really wanted to eat my brain. I was lucky to get away in one piece.
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We're doomed.
Here is one of many books available for you JAMO. Get that RV all rigged up and set up your own Comm Center to take care of CC for the rest of the Zombies that you leave behind!
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Here is one of many books available for you JAMO. Get that RV all rigged up and set up your own Comm Center to take care of CC for the rest of the Zombies that you leave behind!
"When the Stockton-Darlington Railway opened in 1825, people feared the worst: the human body, surely, wasn't made to travel at incredible speeds of 30 miles per hour. People genuinely believed that going that quickly would kill you in gruesome ways, such as your body melting." - 12 Technologies That People Feared
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"When the Stockton-Darlington Railway opened in 1825, people feared the worst: the human body, surely, wasn't made to travel at incredible speeds of 30 miles per hour. People genuinely believed that going that quickly would kill you in gruesome ways, such as your body melting." - 12 Technologies That People Feared
Yup. Same thing when they started hitting 60 mph and especially 100. Even doctors warned that at those speeds your brain will scramble!
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The documentary TV series, "Connections," made the point well that the most profound effects of advancing technologies are typically not what we wanted to happen or what we expected to happen. The biggest changes come from the unintended consequences of new technologies. I have no reason to expect that pattern to change in the future.
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Between Google, Facebook and Tesla, you do see alot of weird stuff going on around here:
I think I saw a beemer in there drifting right along in a straight line on a wet road. Shows the level of control that can be achieved. Begs the question on what kind of hot lap times "the computer" could get vs. a human in the same car provided the software was dialed in for the track.
I think I saw a beemer in there drifting right along in a straight line on a wet road. Shows the level of control that can be achieved. Begs the question on what kind of hot lap times "the computer" could get vs. a human in the same car provided the software was dialed in for the track.
At dinner tonight a friend asked me for advice regarding a project his college students are undertaking. They've been challenged to predict what a Le Mans race car of 2045 will look like. I told him the hard part of answering that question is knowing what the race rules will be then. They've already limited what cars can do automatically in F1 and Le Mans racing so the driver will have some impact of the outcome of the race. In less than 30 years it will be possible to field an unmanned car that can go faster than any human driver provided the rules allow it. So the design of the cars then will depend more on what race organizers want to allow than what technology is available. .... I can also imagine a time when race cars become so safe that there is no appreciable risk to the drivers. My guess is that much of the appeal of racing will diminish when the risk is gone and the rules leave little room for drivers to affect the outcome.
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At dinner tonight a friend asked me for advice regarding a project his college students are undertaking. They've been challenged to predict what a Le Mans race car of 2045 will look like. I told him the hard part of answering that question is knowing what the race rules will be then. They've already limited what cars can do automatically in F1 and Le Mans racing so the driver will have some impact of the outcome of the race. In less than 30 years it will be possible to field an unmanned car that can go faster than any human driver provided the rules allow it. So the design of the cars then will depend more on what race organizers want to allow than what technology is available. .... I can also imagine a time when race cars become so safe that there is no appreciable risk to the drivers. My guess is that much of the appeal of racing will diminish when the risk is gone and the rules leave little room for drivers to affect the outcome.
Sounds like a good way to stack betting odds in ones favor.
Same goes for drones and fighter pilots, seeing drones take over that role right now in the middle east.
I agree. ... I'm a retired USAF pilot and the hand writing has been on the wall for the future of manned aircraft for some time. Human pilots do bring some advantages to the fight, mainly situational awareness and ingenuity when dealing with unexpected situations. But they also severely limit aircraft capabilities such as maneuverability and mission duration. Humans are also considered less expendable than drones so they can limit the options of military planners.
IMHO, top AF leaders have been faced with a dilemma for some time. They recognize that unmanned aircraft are generally superior to manned aircraft in both cost and capability. But those same leaders are all pilots who demonstrated the leadership skills that made them top leaders while serving as pilots. There's this unstated understanding that the best leaders come from that pool of people who had the intelligence, self discipline and risk tolerance to become successful AF pilots. If they do away with the testing ground that manned flying provides, they're not sure that future leaders who served by remotely flying drones, sitting in missile silos, or managing parts inventories will be as capable. .... My guess is that as humans take a smaller and smaller role in actual aerial combat, the USAF will be dissolved back into the Army sometime this century.
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If the automatons can ride a bike now, Cobras will be a piece of cake! Insiders say the only glitch with Cobras is a tendency of the AI operating systems to freeze or crash when plebs and other humanoids at gas stations and Walmarts stroll up and ask "the question".
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the strength to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. -(wasn't me)
if the automatons can ride a bike now, cobras will be a piece of cake! Insiders say the only glitch with cobras is a tendency of the ai operating systems to freeze or crash when plebs and other humanoids at gas stations and walmarts stroll up and ask "the question".
Tommy, yep things are a changin'. War may become an 8 hour job with desk pilots assigned a work shift. Just put on your VR headset, maybe from the den in your house, do your 8 hours surveilling or targeting the enemy in some remote part of the world, then hand off to the next desk jockey for his shift. Don't want to hijack this thread too far from the OP's intentions, there is a lounge thread this would fit into
As for self-driving cars, it could be that garages become obsolete or turned into dedicated hobby work shops. You call up your Uber like transportation when you need it. It drives to you, picks you up and delivers you to your destination, then goes back to a charging station "lot" where it is cleaned up like the cabin in a commercial jet then waits for the next call. Grocery shopping? - ordered and delivered all from the keyboard.
Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the strength to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. -(wasn't me)
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