NationStates Jolt Archive

Brain implants (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4396387.stm) and robotic suits. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4082301.stm)

Hook one up to the other and we have Robotech. :D The future is forthcoming!

Brain Implants... Macross...

Man, that's gonna be fucking sweet.

Wow...there's my SARA link...about 800 years earlier than I'd predicted.

Brain implants (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4396387.stm) and robotic suits. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4082301.stm)

Hook one up to the other and we have Robotech. :D The future is forthcoming! You mean Ghost In The Shell or Appleseed...

Wow...there's my SARA link...about 800 years earlier than I'd predicted.

I can't remember where, or exactly how, I heard this quote, but I think it went something like "the failing of scientific conjecture is that we tend to overestimate what we can do in a hundred years, and underestimate what we can do in 10."

I guess it's really more of a paraphrase.

I absolutely love the brain implants. That is so cool. Now we need a computer chip that can read your THOUGHTS as opposed to simple commands of movement.

However, I have some problems with the car. The nerd that designed that piece of crap needs to be stuffed back into his parent's basement and never let out again. Screw all travel being conducted in a tiny bubble. I'll stick with my trusty legs and cars of today. We have reached the pinnacle in car design. You cannot possibly design cars that are more pleasing to the eye then we have in the last 70 years. Fortunately, most people agree with me and that car will be about as sucessful as the tin foil clothing design they use in the same picture. Those have been around since the 40's and look how far they've gotten.

One of each please.

I can't remember where, or exactly how, I heard this quote, but I think it went something like "the failing of scientific conjecture is that we tend to overestimate what we can do in a hundred years, and underestimate what we can do in 10."

I guess it's really more of a paraphrase.

Yeah, I can see this entirely. Tell a man who marvels at the first horse-less carriages that, in a 60 years, we'll be on the moon, he'll call you crazy. Tell a man who watches people return from the moon that we won't be living there in 40 years, he'll call you insane.

It's a real shame, though. The invention of the SARA link was meant to be a major turning point in the Centurion Wars as far the use of fighters went. Before the SARA link, the idea of single, one man fighters for use in space combat was not feasible, no single person could handle all the various calculations to make fighters feasible in an environment where capital ship weapons could wipe them out in one shot and still be combat effective.

The SARA link changed all that, taking the cumbersome human body out of the equation. Now the ship was the body. The Centurions, for lack of real resources, were not able to adapt quick enough. Their dominance of the capital ship arena continued, but the advent of the single-man fighter destroyed them, due mostly to their dependence of energy weapons and particle beams because of the lack of large amounts of metals in the outer Sol system needed to construct large supplies of ammunition for point-defense weaponry.

Because of this, the second attempt by the Centurions to invade Imperial Space was easily repulsed and, after only a few short years, the Centurions themselves were crushed.

So much for that, I'll have to do the Clarke thing and change the timeline >_<

Those robotic suits that you pointed out are crap. The exoskeletons beign researched by the US army are more closely realted to cyborgs. The brain implant is noce though. I have great hopes for it revolutionizing the way we watch TV.

I have been following the brain implant since they first made it work for the monkey. Amazing stuff really, some of the most far fetched "Sci-Fi" in the here and now.

Those robotic suits that you pointed out are crap. The exoskeletons beign researched by the US army are more closely realted to cyborgs. The brain implant is noce though. I have great hopes for it revolutionizing the way we watch TV.

They're linked on the same damn page.

It's all the same though. Prosthesis or vehicles, end stage is wrap the person in a machine, then we can forget about all this exercise crap and just buy a nicer chasis.

April fools?

They're linked on the same damn page.

It's all the same though. Prosthesis or vehicles, end stage is wrap the person in a machine, then we can forget about all this exercise crap and just buy a nicer chasis.

I didn't read it, I only skimmed and looked at the pictures, which have been around for a long time now.

EDIT: And upon reading it. The US military work is barely mentioned, getting a single sentence. It focuses mainly on the outlandish Japanese designs, which, it has been pointed out, will not catch on.