Forums
New posts
Search forums
What's new
Articles
Latest reviews
Author list
Classifieds
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles and first posts only
Search titles only
By:
New posts
Search forums
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Forums
Hunting
Long Range Hunting & Shooting
How fast did weapons and ammo technology really advance and when did it happen?
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 1870348" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>My day job puts me in contact with lots of incipient technologies; that is technologies that are not complete and still have significant engineering yet to be completed, and because the nature of what we do is basically bridge the gap between the physical and the digital many of the technologies our customers create are in fact terrifying when looked at for their potential rather than at what they actually get used for in the end. I can't give really any details but I can illuminate things a tiny bit:</p><p></p><p>Weapons aren't scary. There'll be plenty of them on the ground if we ever really need them to repel an internal or external threat to our nation. The non-weapons technology though... that should concern folks mightily. Ubiquitous internet connectivity, novel networking technologies, AI, big data, machine learning and certain areas of mathematics like game theory and statistics are where the most powerful tools are coming from and nobody on the street really sees the details. </p><p></p><p>What if, someone came up with a bit of software that operated a little bit like wildlife on the internet? Think of what happens when the endpoints (the computers attached to the internet) aren't where the power of the internet is because the existence of the internetwork itself provides a distributed physical infrastructure where this wildlife lives and suddenly the idea that being behind a vigorously secure firewall will protect you from someone outside of it attacking you becomes instantly false because the client (your computer) doesn't have to initiate a connection to a server (their computer) and instead it happens the other way around and you couldn't ever tell that it happened. That technology exists but has yet to be marketed. I was involved with building it if only on the periphery. It'll change the heck out of several industries over the coming years but no individual person on the street will probably ever know explicitly about its existence. The average person will simply see a new app that's cool and gives them new capabilities and it'll be up to the entities that implement systems based on technologies like this to do the right thing. History is littered with government lackeys that were trusted to do the right thing and did the exact opposite, that's why people should have any concern at all. A gun is only dangerous in the hands of of a person. Sitting there on a shelf, they're as harmless as software sitting on a shelf. </p><p></p><p>NOTE: Some of the euphemisms and analogies aren't exactly spot on and might give the highly technical reader a little heartburn so, please techies, keep in mind that this is meant for the layman, not nerds like us.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 1870348, member: 96226"] My day job puts me in contact with lots of incipient technologies; that is technologies that are not complete and still have significant engineering yet to be completed, and because the nature of what we do is basically bridge the gap between the physical and the digital many of the technologies our customers create are in fact terrifying when looked at for their potential rather than at what they actually get used for in the end. I can't give really any details but I can illuminate things a tiny bit: Weapons aren't scary. There'll be plenty of them on the ground if we ever really need them to repel an internal or external threat to our nation. The non-weapons technology though... that should concern folks mightily. Ubiquitous internet connectivity, novel networking technologies, AI, big data, machine learning and certain areas of mathematics like game theory and statistics are where the most powerful tools are coming from and nobody on the street really sees the details. What if, someone came up with a bit of software that operated a little bit like wildlife on the internet? Think of what happens when the endpoints (the computers attached to the internet) aren't where the power of the internet is because the existence of the internetwork itself provides a distributed physical infrastructure where this wildlife lives and suddenly the idea that being behind a vigorously secure firewall will protect you from someone outside of it attacking you becomes instantly false because the client (your computer) doesn't have to initiate a connection to a server (their computer) and instead it happens the other way around and you couldn't ever tell that it happened. That technology exists but has yet to be marketed. I was involved with building it if only on the periphery. It'll change the heck out of several industries over the coming years but no individual person on the street will probably ever know explicitly about its existence. The average person will simply see a new app that's cool and gives them new capabilities and it'll be up to the entities that implement systems based on technologies like this to do the right thing. History is littered with government lackeys that were trusted to do the right thing and did the exact opposite, that's why people should have any concern at all. A gun is only dangerous in the hands of of a person. Sitting there on a shelf, they're as harmless as software sitting on a shelf. NOTE: Some of the euphemisms and analogies aren't exactly spot on and might give the highly technical reader a little heartburn so, please techies, keep in mind that this is meant for the layman, not nerds like us. [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Forums
Hunting
Long Range Hunting & Shooting
How fast did weapons and ammo technology really advance and when did it happen?
Top