“Skynet” to become a reality with Boeing
patenting autonomous drone that never lands
In a undoubtedly Orwellian turn in an already reality like
1984, Boeing was given a patent by the US Patent and
Trademark Office this past week for an independent
drone system that is able of being revitalized without
having to land.
While civil democrats nationwide warn regarding the rise
of many states making use of unauthorized drones,
municipalities and jurisdictions across the nation are
taking full benefit of the technology much to the damage
of privacy.
The current restrictions on the amount of time a drone
can spend in the air are directly linked to the amount of
fuel energy an aerial vehicle without fleet is capable of
carrying.
If realized, this new Boeing patent could change radically
or fundamentally the way drones are controlled and
utilized.
According to the patent, tending to remind something
straight out of the Matrix movies, the new system would
include drones powered by battery, which would position
a tether that is able to connect to a power source.
The aerial vehicle without fleet would remain in one
place in the air as the tether connected to the energy
source. Once fully charged, it would fly off and carry on
its pre-programmed task, with other drones taking their
place at the charging station.
The drone would have the ability to make use of ocean
and land-based power stations and would even have the
ability of recharging while in flight.
The Boeing patent initially filed back in 2013, which was
approved this week.
There is definitely a list of well intended uses for these
drones, like giving wifi or other communications signals
to remote areas. However, the US government is great at
figuring out all the dangerous ways to put into effect
such technology.
A future with pre-programmed automated flying drones
which do not require to land except for maintenance
could result in a dismal imaginary reality for humanity if
handled by the military industrial complex.
The use of swarm algorithms in relation to autonomous
drone fleets, when taken in concert with substantial
advances in AI capabilities , has the capacity to make the
unimaginable a reality.
While the creation of a more effective means of charging
a fleet of drones seems a simple way on the surface to
centralize the technology, the long-term implications for
civil liberties and privacy could be highly destructive.
To the list of concerns add the supply of domestic
drones and you have a recipe for disaster.
As a society do we really believe in a large group of
independent drones, potentially armed, which could
almost never need leave the sky in theory?
The thought of the “Sentinels” from the Matrix movies
immediately comes to mind when inspecting in detail the
potential future implications of this newly patented
drone.
There are no comments from Boeing whether they decide
to put these systems into production, and according to
the Business Insider, the proposed system only “exists
on the drawing board.”
Do we truly accept that DARPA hasn’t already heavily
invested in this technology?
Do you think independent flying drones that almost never
need to land are a good thing or are they the next step
in our action of moving downward into a dark Orwellian
future ?
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