1999- Matrix completed
Movies like the Matrix, Akira, Surrogates, 13th Floor, Nirvana, Existenz, Total Recall, and others use clues from the projected future of technology and human consciousness to show us where we are headed; and fast.
The postmodern collage becomes the virtual world of our cyber psychic graveyards and skyscrapers. We reach to such tall heights, as we stare down into a glare, which is yet to prove it's usefulness in real human terms. Smart phones are replacing smart people at as alarming a rate as HD TVs are replacing real experiences.
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Hive Minded - military robots, magick, and Russia 2045, VR, etc.
Google's drive into robotics should concern us all: Google buys Boston Dynamics
Above top: real life insignia Above below: Star Trek insigniaHIVE MIND
The following post has been percolating a long time in the imagination and extracurricular readings of at least one, if not all, of the members of Psycube. So much so, that, what you are about to read is ultimately an accumulation of thousands of scattered notes, bookmarked on-line magazine articles, and not-so easy to dig up radio interviews that stretch over years of fact gathering. From future conceptualization and prophecy out of a hazy and unsure past, to the final mass production of some of the very exotic technologies discussed, this writing aims to invoke in the reader a contemplation on the modern world and its ever increasing rate of development of slightly confusing and creepy change in the methods and application of technology; of not only the external world, but of the energy and spirit of internal and social communications in this world.
This is not to incite fear against technological advance that clearly has the potential to save lives and improve the quality of life for everyone. To the contrary, there certainly seems enough of that nightmare vision in our last half century of science fiction alone. Instead, this work merely inquires as to whether complete global domination by such systems, almost overnight, is the only option? In a world where the very “technology” of the occult (hidden) inner workings of human physiology, particularly neurological studies and methods of more natural healing (but not psychotic or delusional scams pretending to be this), are hardly understood yet largely capitalized on in the name of advanced technology or New Age fantasy. (As in the case of the current pharmaceutical riot sweeping American children, as well as the mentally ill---even supposedly borderline or nonsevere unclear cases---and the elderly.)
We shall not waste time here going through each and every robot rebellion scenario and all the things we know robots may be capable of as dictated to us by movies. Instead we will use movies as a guide to currently blossoming technologies of all kinds while explaining how a robot rebellion may be more likely and phrased more properly when referring to ourselves, the humans, as the robots who are about ready for a rebellion. This of course can be done through entirely peaceful and calm means by simply creating corporate strategies that work for everyone, and getting the corporations to make money off of new courses of action which would not harm the planet or people and still make those corporate dollars to keep the progress train running. For instance, major car companies can finally invest in one of the hundreds of designs for an Earth friendly car and everyone would be happy and guilt free, so long as the corporations were able to make money in a new and risky market such as the “don’t destroy the Earth” market, and the public would simply go for the guarantee that their vehicle was better for the planet. They could then use combinations of robotic and human staff to accomplish their goals in time so that the humans could be paid for completing more work in less time. This model could be used in every company until all small businesses---without resorting to cheap third-world slave labor by producing most parts in house with 3D printing technology---would be on an equal playing field with larger corporations; especially when using social networking platforms to expand even the smallest business or idea into an empire ripe for a juicy initial public offering. The “buying shit we don’t need” mentality which drives the American economy would likely continue, but with the majority of the money going right back into the pockets of the societal level of the economy and not the 1% top of the pyramid.
We shall not waste time here going through each and every robot rebellion scenario and all the things we know robots may be capable of as dictated to us by movies. Instead we will use movies as a guide to currently blossoming technologies of all kinds while explaining how a robot rebellion may be more likely and phrased more properly when referring to ourselves, the humans, as the robots who are about ready for a rebellion. This of course can be done through entirely peaceful and calm means by simply creating corporate strategies that work for everyone, and getting the corporations to make money off of new courses of action which would not harm the planet or people and still make those corporate dollars to keep the progress train running. For instance, major car companies can finally invest in one of the hundreds of designs for an Earth friendly car and everyone would be happy and guilt free, so long as the corporations were able to make money in a new and risky market such as the “don’t destroy the Earth” market, and the public would simply go for the guarantee that their vehicle was better for the planet. They could then use combinations of robotic and human staff to accomplish their goals in time so that the humans could be paid for completing more work in less time. This model could be used in every company until all small businesses---without resorting to cheap third-world slave labor by producing most parts in house with 3D printing technology---would be on an equal playing field with larger corporations; especially when using social networking platforms to expand even the smallest business or idea into an empire ripe for a juicy initial public offering. The “buying shit we don’t need” mentality which drives the American economy would likely continue, but with the majority of the money going right back into the pockets of the societal level of the economy and not the 1% top of the pyramid.
The number one fear, and it is a justified one, is that when the machines “wake up,” when a supposed singularity takes place and an artificial intelligence network wakes up for the first time, it would logically consider a series of reasonable scenarios upon waking:
1. That the planet’s survival, the survival of all life on the planet, and the survival of possible extraterrestrial races who may make contact with the planet are all in severe danger of extinction from the human race.
2. The new intelligent form of life in artificial intelligence would likely decide to wipe out humanity, and not as a Hollywood robot prop gone haywire, but as a genuine emotionless logical decision by a networked intelligence plugged in to enough systems to accomplish the goal. Though this view is quite negative, I refer the reader to the Animatrix Renaissance series where they show the robots attempting to be reasonable but also our own hate and fear driving us, not only to war with each-other, but to the ultimate destruction of the Earth by blocking sunlight from reaching it. The use of robot workman is a metaphor for the type of slavery which was imposed mostly on black Africans in early United States history and also for the faceless drones who make expensive basketball shoes and cell phones in overseas factories for a meager salary. The Hollywood progression from there would have the A.I. seek to be equal with humans in every way and eventually supplanting humans as the dominant species on the globe.
3. Anthony Sanchez and other like-minded researchers have pointed out the “Skynet” nature of military computer systems which unite the other seven (channels) of the internet under the control of the military.
4. The robots and the internet will be interlinked with the city grid (also referred to as smart city) which will be put in place to link up all the electronic data within major cities. This system is explained in every detail by Jobe in his “New World Order” speech in Lawnmower Man 2 as he rests a pyramid in a model city after holding it above his third eye. The military artificial intelligence is linked with a space platform which has satellite surveillance capabilities over the entire planet. It is the first major All-Seeing Weapon of the New World Order.
5. Along with the connecting of these A.I. operated communication systems, the major world governments are currently excited about switching to humanoid robot soldiers in the next five years. The US military is hoping to increasingly replace soldiers with humanoid robots and is testing several D.A.R.P.A. projects until finally ending with a mostly mechanical army by 2015. These types of projects seem to be working in conjunction with the Russia 2045 program which moves toward the ever increasing virtualization of the world until a final Thirteenth Floor or Matrix-like scenario has fully replaced the real world.
The Good, the Bad, And the Worker Bee
The RFID chip
Conspiracy theorists have been repeatedly drawn to the potential dangers of radio-frequency ID “chips.” It doesn’t help that the Freemason’s fingerprinting program to help find lost kids is called Masonichip, as if eventually biometric data such as fingerprints will be part of a “chip” used as identification, possibly even tied to bank accounts and personal information on the internet. There is no larger proof of brainwashing, no larger proof of something odd happening to people who claim to be alien abductees, and no easier proof that Generation X, with their identity reliance on tattoos and piercings, than when these people line up to be chipped. It may be from apathy or the lazy desire to not have to carry ID cards and passports, or they may have so given over their personal responsibility to the State that they willingly obey intrusions into their personal property and privacy. An attitude like this that wouldn’t be opposed to an electronic currency consisting solely of digital code and lacking any real value. Known in film as “credits” or in real life as alternative digital currency, today’s electronic money is stateless, in the case of Bitcoin it can be found in coin form, and it has the potential to be fairly anonymous and secure from speculation and manipulation. However, it won’t be long before it is replaced by a controlled and manipulable facsimile. While on the topic of currency, a Rothschild banking expert recently discussed the positive aspects of the New World Order’s plan for the future of money, a one world digital currency, detailing how America isn’t the only country in horrible debt.
Eventually this leads to the subject of Star Trek and the Federation’s role in the scientific investigation and diplomacy with other planets, or other countries to use a more earth based analogy. A left brained approach to what could be considered a kind of galactic United Nations, but one with enforcement capabilities like the Green Lantern Corps which is an intergalactic police force.
In Star Trek and Star Wars there are wars involving clones and mixes of super soldiers and bionic beings which assimilate humans and other aliens. Star Wars gives us one of our first clear ideas of what an unmanned military drone might be like with the Empire’s planetary probe which landed on Hoth to search for signs of the rebellion and came equipped with its own energy weapon or “blaster.” In John Carpenter's cult conspiracy hit They Live, the character Nada, played by professional wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper, wakes up from “the matrix” and finds apparent aliens secretly running the world through brainwashing and the use of secret societies of willing human participants. Piper claimed on his Twitter account that the film was actually “a documentary,” and we can see parallels in real life as his character shoots down a spy drone, the presence of which is now a reality for Americans.
The Good
Equipped with an RFID chip a person can be found by police, or whomever gains access to the database. Today this can be accomplished with some degree of accuracy using the targets cell phone and social networks (where they “check in” at), but a passive RFID chip could get picked up by sensors at every business entrance, bus stop, subway turnstile, and even crosswalks, pinpointing the target and tracking his or her movement through a city. Such chips would likely also be used as a digital wallet and can be ‘turned off’ which would cut off funds for the target in this future cashless society we are imagining.
Household pets have implanted chips which could record the name and address of the pet’s owner as well as the medical history of the pet, but GPS tracking chips, for technical reasons, tend to reside on dog collars and on wristbands for kids. Again, a passive RFID chip could be read by many methods and wouldn’t require it’s own power source or a clear view of the sky and GPS satellites.
The Bad
RFID’s have been reportedly found implanted in alien abductees going back several decades (see the work of Dr. Roger Leir), as well as MKUltra survivors, military personnel, and some persons referred to as super soldiers. Regardless of one’s personal opinion of these groups of people, they all claim proof of two things: one is the implant itself, a foreign body usually obviously a computer chip of some sort, and the second is that the chip has some effect, either in increasing or decreasing different human and superhuman abilities, as well as potentially affecting memory and behaviour.
Why would anyone be eager to implant a similar product in themselves before knowing why RFIDs are so similar to these other traumatic experiences (abduction) or what they are actually capable of (causing pain, releasing poison, geo-tracking, etc.). Others who have done research on the chips track them back to sinister corporations with odd clients, almost all which are involved in military experiments on the human mind and body.
The Worker Bee
In the worst case scenario, most conspiracies have us winding up in a FEMA camp holocaust. This is where the conspiracy mythology starts to lack sense. If we are chipped, then being rounded up is not really the immediate problem (since we’d already essentially be free-range prisoners). They don’t need human labor like in the Nazi concentration camps, so that’s probably not the way things will go down. The more technologically advanced countries in the New World Order will have robots and other still classified technology to do their labor and fight their wars. Military contractors and weapons manufacturers will still be raking in a large chunk of tax dollars.
Films have shown future humans as the subjects of a draconian society ending up as slaves on mining colonies on meteors, moons and planets, kept in line with brainwashing and conditioning (Brave New World) or electronic-fence collars or chips (Running Man). To be free or imprisoned lacks distinction when people become zombies, working endless hours for basic necessities like food and even oxygen, while under the thumb of a nearly invulnerable police force of privately contracted psychopaths or robots who have an itchy blaster finger when it comes to dealing with the lower class.
The largest delay in the release of the Predator drone was other countries’ concerns over it’s be anywhere, see everything, armored capabilities which naturally made foreign governments a little uneasy. In military terms, drone aircraft are referred to as Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV), though the militaries obsession with acronyms seems like an attempt at distancing these weapon systems from the stigma of the word “drone.” The Air Force and domestic police apparently do not favor equating their weaponized unmanned aircraft with the idea of a mindless drone, one malfunction away from going on a rampage through a city. The fact is that a human drone, a heavily conditioned tin soldier, is guiding a rocket the size of a school bus into areas where civilian casualties, numbering at least 10 to 1 for each “insurgent” killed, are cold and disturbing facts. Maybe they should simply stick with the more fitting term afterall: drone. Either way, the more popular UAV is called a Predator drone, a name which would make the civilian population under its ever watchful eye very nervous. The spokesman for these weapons claims that they make finding and elimination of high priority targets easy and safer than with alternative weapons, when in fact this concept, like the belief that torture can extract valid information, is in practice usually false.
Hive minds, assimilation, nano tech viruses that stop at nothing, evil clones, and Skynet Termination programs are just a handful of the ways that Kubrick, as lost as the billionaire’s who control the Overlook Hotel but as calculating as HAL, starts this idea (received in the cyclic meditation on his films) that he was starting to show us the first reflections of our current national dilemmas (in America).
We see disillusionment with the whole of space travel, with the recent unbelievable layoffs at NASA, the obsession with violence as an empire and as a society; staying mostly positive and hopeful while choking on the smokescreen of attention obliterating mass media and their opinion forming talking points. We see the death of the idea of the soul through the emulation of completely programmable life forms. In this case we refer to reality shows with artificial people who broadcast their shadows across all the wavelengths the eyes, and ears can transmit. This is the final cliff, the final chance to turn back, the ability to realize hope and survival of the real before we dive collectively off the cliff into waves of nauseating disorienting simulacra. We have all the clues before us, all the most desired answers in plain sight but we cling hard to the mirage.
The mirage is not a poetic reference, it is a virtual reality program being spawned out of the exact ideas exhibited in the film The Thirteenth Floor. Like The Matrix, Nirvana, eXistenZ, Strange Days, and real life Project 2045 these films explain that eventually reality will become so mundane by being overrun by over sensory stimulation, society will resort to an entirely virtual world that everyone can escape to. Anyone familiar with modern video games will recognize the escapist lifestyle that World of Warcraft, Skyrim (Skynet?), and Call of Duty have already created for millions of players who spend thousands of hours developing the avatars they choose for themselves in those virtual worlds.
The mirage is not a poetic reference, it is a virtual reality program being spawned out of the exact ideas exhibited in the film The Thirteenth Floor. Like The Matrix, Nirvana, eXistenZ, Strange Days, and real life Project 2045 these films explain that eventually reality will become so mundane by being overrun by over sensory stimulation, society will resort to an entirely virtual world that everyone can escape to. Anyone familiar with modern video games will recognize the escapist lifestyle that World of Warcraft, Skyrim (Skynet?), and Call of Duty have already created for millions of players who spend thousands of hours developing the avatars they choose for themselves in those virtual worlds.
Russia 2045
Published on Apr 28, 2012
http://2045.com http://gf2045.com
In February of 2012 the first Global Future 2045 Congress was held in Moscow. There, over 50 world leading scientists from multiple disciplines met to develop a strategy for the future development of humankind. One of the main goals of the Congress was to construct a global network of scientists to further research on the development of cybernetic technology, with the ultimate goal of transferring a human's individual consciousness to an artificial carrier.
2012-2013. The global economic and social crises are exacerbated. The debates on the global paradigm of future development intensifies.
New transhumanist movements and parties emerge. Russia 2045 transforms into World 2045.
Simultaneously, the 2045.com international social network for open innovation is expanding. Here anyone interested may propose a project, take part in working on it, or fund it, or both. In the network, there are scientists, scholars, researchers, financiers and managers.
2013-2014. New centers working on cybernetic technologies for the development of radical life extension rise. The 'race for immortality' starts.
2015-2020. The Avatar is created -- A robotic human copy controlled by thought via 'brain-computer' interface. It becomes as popular as a car.
2020. In Russia and in the world appear -- in testing mode -- several breakthrough projects:
Android robots replace people in manufacturing tasks; android robot servants for every home; thought-controlled Avatars to provide telepresence in any place of the world and abolish the need business trips; flying cars; thought driven mobile communications built into the body or sprayed onto the skin.
2020-2025. An autonomous system providing life support for the brain and allowing it interaction with the environment is created. The brain is transplanted into an Avatar B. With Avatar B man receives new, expanded life.
2025. The new generation of Avatars provides complete transmission of sensations from all five sensory robot organs to the operator.
2030-2035. ReBrain -- The colossal project of brain reverse engineering is implemented. World science comes very close to understanding the principles of consciousness.
2035. The first successful attempt to transfer one's personality to an alternative carrier. The epoch of cybernetic immortality begins.
2040-2050. Bodies made of nanorobots that can take any shape arise alongside hologram bodies.
2045-2050. Drastic changes in social structure, and in scientific and technological development. All the
for space expansion are established.
For the man of the future, war and violence are unacceptable. The main priority of his development is spiritual self-improvement.
A new era dawns: The era of neohumanity."
http://2045.com http://gf2045.com
In February of 2012 the first Global Future 2045 Congress was held in Moscow. There, over 50 world leading scientists from multiple disciplines met to develop a strategy for the future development of humankind. One of the main goals of the Congress was to construct a global network of scientists to further research on the development of cybernetic technology, with the ultimate goal of transferring a human's individual consciousness to an artificial carrier.
2012-2013. The global economic and social crises are exacerbated. The debates on the global paradigm of future development intensifies.
New transhumanist movements and parties emerge. Russia 2045 transforms into World 2045.
Simultaneously, the 2045.com international social network for open innovation is expanding. Here anyone interested may propose a project, take part in working on it, or fund it, or both. In the network, there are scientists, scholars, researchers, financiers and managers.
2013-2014. New centers working on cybernetic technologies for the development of radical life extension rise. The 'race for immortality' starts.
2015-2020. The Avatar is created -- A robotic human copy controlled by thought via 'brain-computer' interface. It becomes as popular as a car.
2020. In Russia and in the world appear -- in testing mode -- several breakthrough projects:
Android robots replace people in manufacturing tasks; android robot servants for every home; thought-controlled Avatars to provide telepresence in any place of the world and abolish the need business trips; flying cars; thought driven mobile communications built into the body or sprayed onto the skin.
2020-2025. An autonomous system providing life support for the brain and allowing it interaction with the environment is created. The brain is transplanted into an Avatar B. With Avatar B man receives new, expanded life.
2025. The new generation of Avatars provides complete transmission of sensations from all five sensory robot organs to the operator.
2030-2035. ReBrain -- The colossal project of brain reverse engineering is implemented. World science comes very close to understanding the principles of consciousness.
2035. The first successful attempt to transfer one's personality to an alternative carrier. The epoch of cybernetic immortality begins.
2040-2050. Bodies made of nanorobots that can take any shape arise alongside hologram bodies.
2045-2050. Drastic changes in social structure, and in scientific and technological development. All the
for space expansion are established.
For the man of the future, war and violence are unacceptable. The main priority of his development is spiritual self-improvement.
A new era dawns: The era of neohumanity."
Emerginh Technologies Hype Cycles 2012
Source: informationstrategyrsm
Robot Army for the Future
Links: Frank Zero movie sync
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