"I can't say now it won't make it worse," Arkin said.'
I really cant think of a more irresponsible statement, scientifically. There is no way he can know what would arise in the wild from potential mutations, and *definitely* no way he can make a blanket statement that it won't be more harmful than HIV. Those kind of generalities are just not beneficial to science, and mislead people to a great degree.
He said he can't make that guarantee. I had to do a double take on it just to make sure I got what he said.
So once the technology gets refined a bit and you get full colour, why not put some tiny cameras on the edges of a pair of sunglasses that are hooked up to the emitters on the inside. Also get some brain wave monitors added to the sunglasses' frame and "train" the pair to learn commands like "pan" and "zoom" and "toggle nightvision" and things like that. Soon, you've got people walking around with what looks like a pair of Oaklies when really they've got the ultimate spy vision equipment. They can see things kilometres away, see infrared, nightvision, etc. No need to worry about getting blinded by a light when using nightvision either, as the signal as the emitters could be smart enough not to send anything over given thresholds. Add in some facial recognition software and he's got robocop style target acquisition. You can get mission updates or important info displayed in a cool text box or something, or even a 3D model of the building or complex you are supposed to be breaking into. Run the power to the devices up the strings that let the pair hang around your neck. Add in digital camera storing capabilities and you can be snapping photos of anything without appearing to do anything, since it's just another command that the pair is trained to pick up. Any malfunctions, just simply remove the sunglasses or disconnect the power supply and you've got an ordinary pair of sunglasses again. So yah, it's just a couple of refinements of the techonology away. Who said the movies were wrong; it's just easier to do it in Hollywood than in real life.
Jeshko
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The exponential curve has been broken on at least one STTNG episode where Riker's in the future with a suped up enterprise with a third warp nacelle and he manages to go at warp 15. That's amazingly fast:)
Being able to watch something only a few hours a head of time isn't a big deal. Up here in the Great White North we've got this thing called StarChoice Digital Satellite. It comes with this amazing thing called "Time Shifting" or something like that. Means that my list of channels includes 8-10 CBCs, CTVs, and Globals (Local Canadian channels). Now each one of these is specific to a time zone. Like I really need CBC Edmonton, Regina, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, etc etc... but it does mean that I can avoid local blackouts for sporting events, watch shows when they air all the way out in Halifax which is 3 hours before it'll air here. Hey, Maybe I should move to BC and extend that an extra hour.
Oh the possibilities...
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"I can't say now it won't make it worse," Arkin said.'
I really cant think of a more irresponsible statement, scientifically. There is no way he can know what would arise in the wild from potential mutations, and *definitely* no way he can make a blanket statement that it won't be more harmful than HIV. Those kind of generalities are just not beneficial to science, and mislead people to a great degree.
He said he can't make that guarantee. I had to do a double take on it just to make sure I got what he said.
So once the technology gets refined a bit and you get full colour, why not put some tiny cameras on the edges of a pair of sunglasses that are hooked up to the emitters on the inside. Also get some brain wave monitors added to the sunglasses' frame and "train" the pair to learn commands like "pan" and "zoom" and "toggle nightvision" and things like that. Soon, you've got people walking around with what looks like a pair of Oaklies when really they've got the ultimate spy vision equipment. They can see things kilometres away, see infrared, nightvision, etc. No need to worry about getting blinded by a light when using nightvision either, as the signal as the emitters could be smart enough not to send anything over given thresholds. Add in some facial recognition software and he's got robocop style target acquisition. You can get mission updates or important info displayed in a cool text box or something, or even a 3D model of the building or complex you are supposed to be breaking into. Run the power to the devices up the strings that let the pair hang around your neck. Add in digital camera storing capabilities and you can be snapping photos of anything without appearing to do anything, since it's just another command that the pair is trained to pick up. Any malfunctions, just simply remove the sunglasses or disconnect the power supply and you've got an ordinary pair of sunglasses again. So yah, it's just a couple of refinements of the techonology away. Who said the movies were wrong; it's just easier to do it in Hollywood than in real life.
Jeshko
The exponential curve has been broken on at least one STTNG episode where Riker's in the future with a suped up enterprise with a third warp nacelle and he manages to go at warp 15. That's amazingly fast :)
Being able to watch something only a few hours a head of time isn't a big deal. Up here in the Great White North we've got this thing called StarChoice Digital Satellite. It comes with this amazing thing called "Time Shifting" or something like that. Means that my list of channels includes 8-10 CBCs, CTVs, and Globals (Local Canadian channels). Now each one of these is specific to a time zone. Like I really need CBC Edmonton, Regina, Calgary, Vancouver, Victoria, etc etc... but it does mean that I can avoid local blackouts for sporting events, watch shows when they air all the way out in Halifax which is 3 hours before it'll air here. Hey, Maybe I should move to BC and extend that an extra hour.
Oh the possibilities...
Jeshko