The Future is Now - 2001 NASA PowerPoint, and a 2020 NASA Disruptive Technologies report
Two pdfs for you - a message in a bottle from the past, has arrived at Now.
We have arrived at 2001's future.
The Future is Now, a PowerPoint presentation from the summer of 2001 - pre 9/11. (sync pdf)
And a document: Disruptive Technologies and Their Putative Impacts Upon Society and Aerospace- Entering the Virtual Age, NASA/TM-20205009387, by Dennis M. Bushnell, Langley Research Center, Hampton Virginia. (sync pdf)
And a document: Disruptive Technologies and Their Putative Impacts Upon Society and Aerospace- Entering the Virtual Age, NASA/TM-20205009387, by Dennis M. Bushnell, Langley Research Center, Hampton Virginia. (sync pdf)
They have planned on direct brain to machine interaction and humans merging with machines.
“The major existential issue will then become “Whither Humans”?
Where have all the humans gone? Lost in a distant past?
“Halophytes as a solution to land, water, food, energy, and climate.”
What is a halophyte?
A salt loving microbe. (Shabala, 2013) The NASA plan suggests they hope to deal with the over salinity of desertification of farmland and other land, by harnessing salt loving microbes instead of by changing fertilization and farming practices to be less salt producing.
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(Shabala, 2013) Shabala S. Learning from halophytes: physiological basis and strategies to improve abiotic stress tolerance in crops. Ann Bot. 2013 Nov;112(7):1209-21. doi: 10.1093/aob/mct205. Epub 2013 Oct 1. PMID: 24085482; PMCID: PMC3806534. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3806534/
Hubris anyone? I know these documents probably elicit sadness and head shaking with many of us, but I can't help but be amused. In my pre-IT days (early 90's) I was the tech guy for a medical center library. The director had me sit in on a presentation for a proposed computer system to help handle information sharing and inter-library communications from a company created by ex NASA employees. If the phrase "We are NASA" was said once it was said once it was said 40 times within the one hour presentation. The director and I keep giving each other incredulous looks. Had a good laugh afterwards and I kept having this vision of NASA employees walking around telling each other how awesome they are. Like "Hey Joe aren't we great?" Joe responds " Dude for real. Look at the time. Gotta go run some checks on a fake satellite. Catch you later."
Thanks for the song. Very appropriate.
This is some Borg energy NASA is emitting.