ssl

Sure you do, and if you can understand this, you will know immediately why the Terminator should never have come in the first place:

Dynamic Physical Rendering (DPR)

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Boomer

Fucking..whoa....

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groundpounder

Hocus pocus, I sez...

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ssl

How so, groundpounder?

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link isn't working for me.

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Elle

ditto.

groundpounder

well, first, it's a proposal - it doesn't exist. The research around something of this sort is only just beginning (according to the article), so "they" don't even know if it will work. It's all theory.
I would need a very good explanation of how a hologram (because that is what we're talking about), would take on physical characteristics, even if we're talking about nanites somehow bonding together to form a larger figure.
How does each nanite interact with the thousands of others? Where's the interface? Where does the charge/powersource come from? If it's not tethered to a power source, are there internal capacitors at work?
What will be used for commands? A CPU that sends it's wireless signal to each nanite? What about degradation?

Just a lot of unaswered questions. Theories, yes. Concrete answers? Not yet.

But it reads well and looks good on paper. And I'm certainly aware that there's technology that is as yet discovered that will amaze us, and this could be it. I ride around in my pickup with all it's gadgetry and CD changer and gauges and lights and electronic seats, electric windows, variable cam timing etc etc and I think, this truck is 'normal.' look at an F100 even 50 short years ago - 1958. This thing would be science fiction in comparison - and 50 more years to 1908? Those folks wouldn't even be able to begin to comprehend what it is, and the power it has, the speed that it can go and the things it does. It'd be a spaceship.

SO, this DPR may actually be something.
we'll see...

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agreed groundpounder; the point is the evolution of artifical intelligence, combined with this technology could spell disaster.

I am certainly not saying do not develop it; it is certainly viable for very good uses. My point is to limit artificial intelligence development.

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groundpounder

whether something be good or whether something be bad, mankind will eventually make it evil.

We will have genetically engineered humans before we'll have AI, and that is far more sinister. Genetic engineering could and might wipe out every major disease known to mankind. but it will eventually lead to Gattica as well.

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Dana

Eh Ive seen T3 one to know what'll happen

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ssl

And to think it was called science FICTION.

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COOL_BREEZE2

Seems like Star Trek to me.

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