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| Not being satisfied with laser weapons that are both invisible and silent, companies like | |
| Boeing have announced that they're going to be taking their laser weapons to the next | |
| level. | |
| Previously, operators have had to pay close attention to know exactly when they've been firing these silent but deadly weapons. | |
| Now their lasers will be equipped with Star Trek and Star Wars sound effects. | |
| So next time Boeing's high-energy laser mobile demonstrator shoots down a drone mid-flight, it's gonna sound exactly like Han Solo's blaster. | |
| But that isn't all that science fiction has influenced. | |
| In addition to cell phones and ion propulsion and handheld devices, Star Trek and Star Wars have also influenced futurists like Ray Kurzweil. | |
| Kurzweil is once again repeating his prediction that humans will meld with computers in the future. | |
| But instead of 2045, Kurzweil is now suggesting cyborgs will be a reality by the 2030s. | |
| The director of engineering at Google said that people will soon be able to connect their brains directly to the cloud and augment their existing intelligence with thousands of computers. | |
| Thanks to DNA nanobots making the connection, our thinking will become a hybrid of biological and non-biological thinking. | |
| Kurzweil adds that by the early 2040s, people will be more like machines than they will be human. | |
| And he even suggests that we'll be able to back up our brains like a hard drive. | |
| But guess what? | |
| Star Trek already conquered this territory in the 90s. | |
| I am the Borg. | |
| The cyborg represents the dark side of humanity, what happens when technology falls into the wrong hands and is used to dehumanize us. | |
| The Star Trek Borgs became one with their technology. | |
| It stripped them of their humanity and their individuality. | |
| They became like zombies in a metal shell. | |
| They were now part of a collective network on a vast computer system, controlled telepathically by this mysterious Borg Queen. | |
| Kind of makes you think there's a possibility something could be telepathically controlling us if we ever were to upload our brains to the cloud, as Kurzweil suggests. | |
| Assimilate this. | |
| And even though we hear the word singularity by 2045, the fact is, man merging with machine has already happened. | |
| Professor Kevin Warwick is head of the cybernetics and robotics department at Reading University in the UK. | |
| In 1998, he was able to connect his nervous system to the internet via a chip implanted in his arm. | |
| He then used the web to allow him to control a robotic arm. | |
| And that was in the 90s. | |
| And he, like Kurzweil and other transhumanists, give this ominous warning that by not upgrading, we would be considered subspecies in the future. | |
| And surprise, surprise, artificial intelligence is one of the topics up for discussion at this year's Bilderberg Conference. | |
| Former DARPA director and now Google exec Regina Dugan will be in attendance. | |
| Dugan is helping to develop and promote the idea of an ingestible identification microchip. | |
| Yeah, absolutely not worrisome at all that Google is now hiring military leadership. | |
| Users would swallow a chip in pill form every day in order to obtain the superpower of having their entire body act as a biological password for cell phones, cars, doors, and other devices. | |
| But I'm sure it means absolutely nothing that artificial intelligence will be discussed this week at a top secret meeting of the world's power brokers. | |
| When people like Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking have warned that artificial intelligence has the potential to destroy humanity if it falls in the wrong hands. | |
| I have one simple request. |
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