What is the craziest most out there technology you can imagine ?

Question

One of the things I think that is important to keep in mind is that the governments and military's of the earth are at least 25 yrs ahead of what you and I the commoner get to play with. I believe 25 is a very conservative number

Think about that - I can call Japan on a cel phone while standing in a park in the middle of no where with no wires needed - the hook up via space satilites

I can google a map of almost anywhere and count the cars on the road of my choice

Boil water in a micowave in seconds - The internet , the fax machine - and a lot of stuff I've taken for granted so long now I have forgotten to mention or think of

Most of the above happened in my life time - I was born - no fax internet or cel phone - etc

So if the "big boy's" have at least 25 yrs of technological development on me

What are they playing with

What is the most out there - tech you can think of -?

Answer 1

Funy the stuff you mention is really miraculous if you stop and think about it. The military is ahead in terms of say 25 yrs ago they had what you have in your desktop now.


But if they are really so advanced why can't they find Osama?

C'mon it's just one guy ! Tell the biggest dumbest guy in the Middle East that Osama did his girlfriend ....he'll find him.

Answer 2

Actually, I think 25 years is a very high number. I would think 10 or 15 is more likely.

You ever see Apollo 13? There's a scene where Tom Hanks is bragging about NASA having a 1 megabyte computer. That was 1969. Richer folks were able to afford that in their PCs and Macs in the early 80s. The lunar lander had like 8k in 1969. My Atari 400 computer had that in 1977 I think.

Anyway, I think the military is currently working on prototypes for near invisibility on various vehicles by having cameras take pictures of what's behind the vehicle, and minature projectors projecting it onto the front of the vehicle.

I think they have made significant progress on virtual reality, at least the vision part so it looks fairly real and 3D. I could see that hitting the consumer market in 10 - 15 years.

Answer 3

I read that US military has this 'nerve weapon' that sits on top a tank. It looks like a big sattelite with a laser type thing in front of it. And when it's fired it will basically make any living thing feel a pain that is as if they are being burned alive. It is a temporary pain and causes no real permenant damage but while it's on, it's supposed to feel like hell on earth.
They say it's good for controlling riots and getting people to get out of the way.
They currently do not use this, so they say.. but they have the technology.
So, a doomsday nerve damage ray gun is my answer.

Answer 4

I going with "g" on this one. Google " human singularity " and read up on it as if it was sci-fi, then after what you wrote, and I write below, think of it again.

If evolution exists (and I think it does), then we are the pinnacle of it on earth. If we are aware of evolution, is evolution itself, in a way, aware? If we can change DNA, create hybrid animals (wholly new species in ways), integrate rudimentary chips and electronics in various biosystems, are we really that far off?

We already have fully autonomous robots, that might be armed (can't find the link but saw it a month ago), one is a flying drone, another is a wheeled+legged machine. You have Cog at MIT and others, and thousands upon thousands of PC's working on things like folding@home via the internet (massively parallel computing). Then you have some really really smart people working on this Pandora's box. Who knows.

It both scares the hell out of me, yet logically makes sense, save for us destroying ourselves before ever getting there.

Oh, and google's pretty spiffy too. Imagine explaining google to someone waking up from a coma from 20 years ago. Google could be (EDIT: IS) working on AI as well.

Answer 5

On the outer fringe is the idea of building supercomputers in another dimension and using nanobots as their active agents in this dimension.
The recent breakthroughs in fusion power also rate, as do the arguments the physicists are having about whether it is actually possible to build a warp drive.

Answer 6

The machine that hooks up to you when you're dreaming but you broadcast to movie theatres the ultimate voyeurism.

Answer 7

A version of Windows that isn't full of security holes and doesn't blue-screen every 15 goddamn minutes.

But no, I don't think we're anywhere near that level of technology...

Answer 8

i wanna rocket belt!

nah, i would look for even greater advances in info technology as well as bio engineering. and with all this green crap going on, there may be some advances in renuable fuels that really change things.

Answer 9

Waterless squirt guns, tin foil hats with fashion design, music with rhythm, celebrities with functioning brains and healthy health care.

Answer 10

systems integrated with your mind...

no keyboard, no talking...

just think and it happens...

it would be much more efficient...