Terminator: Hunter/killer Coming

[Tool-Slinger]

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070715/D8QD61V80.html

I have always thought the 'terminator' movie to be prophetic, in a way. We are moving rapidly towards that type of warfare. I am not buying the 'machines-wake-up' part of the fictional movie, just the hardware. It is changing the nature of warfare in ways I cannot imagine, although there is only a tiny drop of it implemented at this time.

[oloenneker]

I dunno, I think that under the right circumstances, the machines one day might "wake up"...

But you are right, we are heading in that direction where we will merely have machines fighting against machines... Unless it is a rebel uprising, where they will use people to fight the machines...

[Tool-Slinger]

I dunno, I think that under the right circumstances, the machines one day might "wake up"...

But you are right, we are heading in that direction where we will merely have machines fighting against machines... Unless it is a rebel uprising, where they will use people to fight the machines...
'''''''''''I think that under the right circumstances, the machines one day might "wake up"...''''''''''''

Maybe not a sentient beginning, but just a result of automated programming?
Creepy thought.

[razorback]

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1459919.htm

The article is a couple years old. The technology that is being developed is fascinating. And if you let your imagination go....

[Tool-Slinger]

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1459919.htm

The article is a couple years old. The technology that is being developed is fascinating. And if you let your imagination go....
Thanks for the link. It is indeed fascinating.

[bb]

There is already robots that when deployed as a group communicate with each other. Instead of labeling all task types to each one, each separate robot has a particular task responsibility within the group. They remain a group by proximity sensors.

The show that I was watching about these had prototypes that could jump about 75 feet high.

Pretty weird to think of the possibilities.:)

[dking]

Yeah, and all that teknology and we still can't get an "A" coil to intstall itself.

[Tool-Slinger]

There is already robots that when deployed as a group communicate with each other. Instead of labeling all task types to each one, each separate robot has a particular task responsibility within the group. They remain a group by proximity sensors.

The show that I was watching about these had prototypes that could jump about 75 feet high.

Pretty weird to think of the possibilities.:)
Pretty weird alright, but pretty scary.

If machines fight our enemies, that is cool.

If machines fight each other, that is far and away better than trench-warfare or the like.

But sooner or later, I fear, some lunk-head will turn loose the machines on us.

[oloenneker]

There is already robots that when deployed as a group communicate with each other. Instead of labeling all task types to each one, each separate robot has a particular task responsibility within the group. They remain a group by proximity sensors.



Huh, who would think something like that could work?! Oh yeah, Karl Marx...

Imagine: the world taken over by socialist robots..:eek: :eek:



Pretty weird to think of the possibilities.:)


Yeah, spooky huh?:)

[The Doctor]

I dunno, James Cameron lost me when he revealed his worldview, and having seen those movies to the point where I can practically recite them, it all clicked in to the characters and the senselessness of the people in the flicks.

T1 and T2 were IMO the best sci-fi movies for their heyday, but T3 was a dud except for the nonstop gratuitous violence that went absolutely nowhere.

Oh well, I guess he has bills to pay just like the rest of us.

[alpha480v]

Wow, interesting link. Thanks for posting it!

[razorback]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/01/0115_030115_snakebot.html


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/07/0701_040701_armyrobot.html

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/08/0817_050817_robotskin.html

Here are some more links. The last link is very interesting. Especially page 2.

[sysint]

"Crime-Fighting Carpets?

E-skin researchers plan to apply their mesh sensor system to devices other than robots.

For example, Someya points to home security products. "If a pressure carpet is spread onto the floor in your house, the sensors could distinguish the family members and strangers just from footprints."

Echelon is doing this with their Pyxos technology, which is intended to be a mini auto-config Lonworks type network. It actually goes to Lonworks from a Pyxos pilot.

[The Doctor]

just wait until Teddy Kennedy tells the H/K that you are guilty of a thought crime.:eek: