DISCLAIMER

Hi-Tech/Top Secret Projects

Technology rules our lives so much that techno-utopians predict humanity will be replaced by android AIs in the next 30-50 years. How exactly did this postwar technology boom come about? Nothing like it had ever been seen in human history and we're still sorting through the breakthroughs made in that era. How did we get here? How did we go from a world where technology remained essentially static for thousands of years to a world where we're slaves to our own machines? To be sure, there were a lot of very great (and very well-educated) scientists working for a lot of very big (and very well-appointed) laboratories and companies. But that had been true for some time. It's even more true today and yet the innovation machine seems to be sputtering to a slow march these days. Even Moore's Law is being called into question now. We looked at graphs charting the rate of human technology: you see a steady line for millennia, then all of them spike skyward shortly after World War II. Why? Human intelligence didn't increase so radically, that's for certain. Then how do we explain technologies coming to market that were little more than theoretical science at the war's end? How do we explain technologies that our best and brightest claimed were impossible? What if our technology is "indistinguishable from magic" for a simple yet compelling reason? Technology has changed our lives in ways many of us could hardly have imagined just 20 years ago, whether we like it or not. Shouldn't we be asking where it really came from?

Its initial demonstration in 1969 led to the Internet, whose world-changing
consequences unfold on a daily basis today. A seminal step in this sequence took place in 1968 when ARPA
contracted BBN Technologies to build the first routers, which one year later enabled ARPANET to become operational.

Americans inspect a captured German V2 rocket

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Antigravity
Biochip Implants
Free Energy
Holographics
Nanotechnology
Propulsion
Various Hi-Tech Projects