DARPA To Turn Humans Into Batteries

DARPA is working on a project that will convert energy from the human body to power a variety of military gadgets. From the article: "Obviously, our bodies generate heat — thermal energy. They also produce vibrations when we move — kinetic energy. Both forms of energy can be converted into electricity. Anantha Chandrakasan, an MIT electrical engineering professor, who is working on the problem with a former student named Yogesh Ramadass, says the challenge is to harvest adequate amounts of power from the body and then efficiently direct it to the device that needs it." If I remember the movie correctly, this didn't turn out so well for the humans.

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Re:Matrix Jokes ...

[tibman]

I thought 2 was ok.. but that part when they escape the trashed ship and he can somehow still "feel" the machines and somehow disables them. I was thinking.. WTF? how can he do that unless he is A) Still in the matrix. B) Wifi type deal in his head. I thought 3 would go into that but no.. pretty sure that was never addressed. Reminds me of Lost.

The part with the Architect reminds me of the Hyperion book series.. where the TechnoCore AIs were trying to build an Ultimate Intelligence that had every variable accounted for and could literally see the future through the sum of current events. An AI God. How could you fight something that knows every thought you are capable of making.. could predict outcomes based upon synapse firing in your brain. Could touch your life in extremely subtle ways to create outcomes decades down the road. Of course in the books, the AIs were parasites of Humanity.. this DARPA project is a crude step in that direction, hah.