2013 – Page 11 – TechieTonics

Space Debris Affecting Our Vital Services

August 3, 2013October 13, 2013 Pooja Kashyap

One day we woke up and witness that the financial markets have been crippled, we try to get updates from TV/computers but the signals are not linked, we try to connect to our friends but guess what, the phone’s also not working. Then we acquaint ourselves with the reality, space junk has crashed into the satellites and so no communications! Seems like a scene from some sci-fi movie but if the problem of growing space waste is not tackled, the scene would be déjà vu in real life.

Unleashing An Uncontrollable Force by Killer Bots

August 1, 2013October 13, 2013 Pooja Kashyap

With the advent of fully autonomous weapons called the “killer bots”, the question of losing humanity is at stake. Since, technology is taking giant steps towards high-tech military capabilities, the nations across the globe are moving towards techniques that provide better combat autonomy by integrating these self-governing machines. Technologically it’s not difficult to morph controllers from humans to fully autonomous systems but a bot can never empathize with a mortal being and hence would definitely pose a threat to global sustainability. Robo weapons The robotic weapons are divided into three…