The US Navy asks for massive drone swarms to overcome future adversaries
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Imagine trying to stop thousands of kamikaze drones – it’d be difficult to impossible which is why the US military wants them. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
An autonomous Blackhawk just successfully completed its first mock rescue mission
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Helicopter crews in war time are put at high risk during search and rescue operations but now an autonomous Blackhawk could see pilots grounded. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
As Arctic tensions heat up DARPA wants to control ice
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The US military often innovate at the bleeding edge and beyond, and this is another example of out the box futures thinking that could also have commercial applications. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
The US Navy takes delivery of its first tactical laser weapon
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Many things you think of as sci-fi are now sci-fact and this is yet another example of how new technologies are changing the battlefield. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
Researchers have invented a new kind of material that thinks for itself
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Smart materials will make a huge difference to the product we make, how we use them, and how they interact with us and the environment. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential...
Fighter pilots take the simulators into battle to fight augmented reality foes
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Simulators for training are OK and real world battle training is expensive and complex, now using Augmented Reality fighter pilots have the best of both in the real world. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself...
NASA’s Martian autonomous cybersecurity defence test is a resounding success
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In time most cybersecurity systems will have to be autonomous in order to keep pace with the attacks, and this fully autonomous IOT trial was a resounding success. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, subscribe to the podcast, future proof yourself with...
Iron Beam laser weapon counters multiple drone threats in live fire tests
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of warfare will include laser weapons and many sci-fi fans will rejoice … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Rafael has successfully tested...
Record breaking US military test takes beaming energy long distance to a new level
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Beaming electricity means you don’t need energy infrastructure and has lots of benefits, this was a ground breaking test. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
A new DARPA project is experimenting with living factories in space
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Why take stuff with you into space when bacteria and other bugs can make everything you need in situ? Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog....
US Army unveils robotics project that lets AI’s ask soldiers clarifying questions
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF In battle the slightest miscommunication can have catastrophic consequences, so soon AI’s will be able to ask soldiers questions to bolster their own understanding. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
New US AI project will identify bots and individuals behind disinformation campaigns
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Today anyone can create a bot that generates huge volumes of disinformation and misinformation, the modern equivalent of PsyOps, this AI program will identify the perpetrators. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential...
From flying aircraft carriers to submarine motherships, the US military draws up plans
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Flying aircraft carriers have already been commissioned, and we could soon see submarine motherships – the future of war is changing. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
World’s first real warp bubble created by accident as scientists mull future warp drive
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Lab accidents are creating all manner of breakthroughs at the moment, in anti-biotics and now warp drives … what’s next?! Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my...
Sensors that detect Covid-19 in the air get major US military funding
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF If you’d like to know if there are any pathogens in the air around you then this is the tech for you. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
The US Army is training to take down real life hunter killer Terminator robots
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF The future of war will be autonomous and machine versus machine versus humans, so the US military’s getting ready for future wars where the rules have changed … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read...
World’s first living robots made by AI surprise scientists by spontaneously reproducing themselves
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF AI, supercomputers and scientists created the world’s first living programable robots from frog cells, and they just spontaneously reproduced themselves surprising the everyone … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and...
5G and Smart City sensor networks could give autonomous vehicles collective perception
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Vehicles and other city infrastructure could share information about their environments and end up with collective perception to make the streets safer. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch...
DARPA and GE developing truck mounted labs to churn out synthetic DNA and RNA vaccines
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF There are many parts of the world that need vaccines, especially in a pandemic, and this system will not only be fast it’ll be portable and be able to produce vaccines at scale. Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself...
The US military’s Active Denial System is a 95Ghz heat ray weapon
WHY THIS MATTERS IN BRIEF Ray guns and heat rays are often thought of as sci-fi but both are very real … Love the Exponential Future? Join our XPotential Community, future proof yourself with courses from XPotential University, read about exponential tech and trends, connect, watch a keynote, or browse my blog. Earlier in...
