Can you tell me how to get to 3D street?
Google has been collecting laser scan information along with photos for it's Streetview maps on Google Earth.
Eventually, this information will be used against us...
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-994...l?tag=nefd.top
Eventually, this information will be used against us...
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-994...l?tag=nefd.top
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Take the D bus?
Eventually, this information will be used against us...
Guess what? It already has. For about a decade now.
Watch this if you haven't yet. It's really a good predictor of what all this satellite 3D foofarah is going to lead to.
I did see Deja Vu and liked it, as ridiculous as it was.
I did see Deja Vu and liked it, as ridiculous as it was.
I thought it was pretty cool. Not that far fetched, except for the last part *spoiler warning* when you-know-who goes-into-you-know-what to save the day (again?) .
If you told people in the 1970s that in 30 years' time there'd be realtime visual and infrared, etc. tracking down to 1m resolution or more, and that there'd be 3D satellite imagery, etc. they''d think you'd been hitting the LSD pretty hard.
By 2035, I'd be suprised if satellite resolution isn't down to maybe 10cm or so, with various extrapolation computing delivering that sort of "time-shifting"*. By 2050, I think our subatomic knowledge is going to blow the whole concept of space and time out the window, just like the Intarweb does away with distance in its own way...
*In this case we might be talking n-dimensional as in playback of "satellite imagery". 3D as in x,y,z, over time, 4th dimension, time, and 5th, 6th dimensional data points for say infrared, or radiation, wireless signal strength, etc. etc..."
If aliens exist, think about the probes they send. What we can do to monitor mars now from earth, think what a civilisation, if it exists, can do with just a 200 to 500 year headstart. Faster than light travel, not needed.
I thought it was pretty cool. Not that far fetched, except for the last part *spoiler warning* when you-know-who goes-into-you-know-what to save the day (again?) .
If you told people in the 1970s that in 30 years' time there'd be realtime visual and infrared, etc. tracking down to 1m resolution or more, and that there'd be 3D satellite imagery, etc. they''d think you'd been hitting the LSD pretty hard.
By 2035, I'd be suprised if satellite resolution isn't down to maybe 10cm or so, with various extrapolation computing delivering that sort of "time-shifting"*. By 2050, I think our subatomic knowledge is going to blow the whole concept of space and time out the window, just like the Intarweb does away with distance in its own way...
*In this case we might be talking n-dimensional as in playback of "satellite imagery". 3D as in x,y,z, over time, 4th dimension, time, and 5th, 6th dimensional data points for say infrared, or radiation, wireless signal strength, etc. etc..."
If aliens exist, think about the probes they send. What we can do to monitor mars now from earth, think what a civilisation, if it exists, can do with just a 200 to 500 year headstart. Faster than light travel, not needed.
I might be one of the few science-fiction fans who does not believe that (SPOILER ALERT) time travel is possible... at all. I did like the Minority Report-style treatment of the visualization in the movie, but even with any kind of practical applications wrought from remote teleportation will not result in a time-traveling camera that could affect a time stream. Ain't gonna happen, it's just good fun and Hollywood. What could possibly happen decades in the future would be simulation powerful enough to predict events based on brain/personality analysis. However, like the weather it's hard to predict anything with any certainty the farther in the future you go. This includes mere minutes into the future.