Random Splinter

I believe that agencies and their companies are more and more a thing of a past era. With the help of technology, a single operator will be able to do all the work that an agency does. All they will need is tools: sattelites, drones and so on. The future are trusted operators with authority to get things done. These operators will work for different countries at the same time which are either friends or enemies. They will listen to the wishes of different countries and make decisions on what strategies to implement. Then they will execute these strategies by themselves. They will take momentary control over militaries and whatever else they need. They will start and finish wars at their leisure. They will be both friend and enemy depending on what scenario they are working with.

There has been a lot of large scale infrastructure projects happening all over the world. But for some reason these projects always seem to go over budget in the west while in China they build highspeed train at a fast rate seemingly effectively. With technology from the west, of course. Why is that? Because the west has been covertly researching, developing producing technology that civilians would consider to be pure magic. This has been financially costly. Therefore money has been siphoned from different government programs into these exotic technology projects. Has it been worth it? Yes. These exotic technologies have been used covertly in defense and healthcare and could in theory be used for asteroid protection. These exotic technologies will the survival of humanity long term. The difficult part in researching, developing and producing these exotic technologies is over. From now on costs will decrease. These exotic technologies have in different ways helped economic development,...

A lot of the hardware on the commercial civilian market that many consider bleeding edge stuff developed exclusively in house in a private company is in fact technology used covertly by government agencies for a very long time. Because of this technologies approved for the civilian commerrcial market might as well be open source used by many different companies instead of a few litigating about "their" technology in court. Of course some big companies believe that they have developed some of their tech all on their own. That is cute, bordering on treason. Patents are only legal for a certain amount of years. So if a technology has been used  by the government for a few decades already, the patent should not be viable anymore. Of course a patent may have been made when a private company received the tech from the government or got help from the government developing tech, not when it was first used by a government. Because of secrecy by obscurity. What´s interesting fro...

If Google changes the innards of android and chrome os from Linux to Fuchsia. And if they can do it while supporting legacy apps then I guess they could ask intel to manufacture a custom ARM or RISC-V cpu for their data centers. Or maybe just RISC-V for low end mobile phones and smartwatches. If they succeed in this, then Microsoft could follow suit and ask Intel for a similar cpu for laptop and desktop computers.  Would it be possible for Intel to do a multicore cpu with a new isa where some of the cores would run X86 apps by something similar to FPGA/VLIW/software magic? Apple seems more used to the idea of stopping support for legacy hardware. Switching from POWER to X86 to ARM. Or maybe if Google, Amazon, Microsoft and government agencies switched from X86 to RISC-V in their data centers. And Samsung, Huawei and others switched from ARM to RISC-V on their mobile phones and tablets.  Then it would be easy enough for Microsoft to switch Windows from X86 to RISC-V Most likely...

imagine if androids were responsible for every covert intel/sec success since the early 1980s.  then imagine that agencies not only took the glory of those androids succeses, but also that these agencies were so badly informed and so incompetent that they thought it was they themselves who were responsible for those successes. even worse, those agencies allowed the to enemy abuse those androids. the people responsible should be treated as traitors in wartime. because in the intelligence world it is always wartime.

In my opinion, the obvious has to be said for progress to be achieved. That the west has taken military control over western europe through NATO seems problematic for Russia. But the alternative after the Soviet Union collapse is that eastern europe would be in a power vacuum with no military strength to dominate it. This would be distressing for both american and european military leadership. But it would also be distressing for russian military leadership. Atleast now the russians know that someone has military control over eastern europe if not the russian instinct would be to expand westwards until it met credible resistance. This is what Russia always has done in order to survive. And it has worked out pretty good so far. The strength of Russia is that it can go all in when needed. Shown in different big wars. The weakness of Russia is that it is slow to improvise with different strategies in different regions which is why it seems to miss opportunities all the time. This is...

Non crewed drone quad tiltrotor bomber/gunship/air to air. If possible, with some stealth characteristics. Get it done, man. This is not high tech and it's getting a bit embarrassing, it is 2020 already. Develop it, build it, make it work, then talk to a government customer. If they don't bite build next iteration as a transport model for the civilian sector. Tell the civilian customer that you took a risk and made a product from a good idea to save soldier lives, but that the military were too cowardly to bet on it. So now the product will help emergency services save civilian lives instead.  And sell it to companies to make the transport industry more efficient instead.

Spacex has a good business model, they develop a finished product BEFORE they have any contract or deal signed with a (government) customer. When they have the first iteration of their product ready, they sell it/rent it out and immidietely start developing the next iteration.  The weapon industry should use this model. If they don't have the necessary tech, they should just ask DARPA about it. Trust me, they have it. even if they don't know it.  Just go whine to someone with influence. Explain how the new product will save soldier lives.  And if the product seems like a good idea, DARPA will be influenced to give tech to the weapons project. Stop being so timid and GET IT DONE.

The civilian sector needs their own DARPA to help with the development of medicine, food, energy, transport and some electronics. This agency could use and develop tech from DARPA. There could in theory be situations that DARPA has tech that it wants to give to medical companies, but the tech is so sensitive that they are not allowed to talk about it. And the medical sector may not even know that some tech is even remotely possible so they don't ask anyone about it. My guess is that DARPA has managed to help with development of medicine technologies among other things.  But this process could possibly become much faster if there was a civilian version of DARPA that could receive tech directly from DARPA and in some cases present it as something they developed themselves. It would in theory be much easier for civilian companies to talk to a civilian agency.