29. January 2009 by admin.

RB is waiting at the astroport of Himalia, the eleventh moon of Jupiter. Himalia is only about 105 miles in diameter. This is a small astroport on the way to outer planets. RB is heading for the Kuiper Belt planetoid Pluto. He remembers from his childhood, the furor over Pluto when it’s status was changed from a planet to planetoid (dwarf planet).

RB’s next assignment is to work in the newly formed CTRT group which has been given enough autonomy that it is virtually unhampered by bureaucracy. CTRT is working on one of the most advanced project of mankind. Well! So RB thinks.

CTRT’s project will propel the company light-years ahead of its competition.
CTRT is tasked to build the Universal Turing Machine (UTM). a.

The concept of UTM is based on Alan Turing’s Universal Function which is a computable function used to calculate any other computable function.

Such a function can be stated and proved by the UTM theorem:

A UTM can compute what all the computing resources of the known human world can compute.

CTRT is taking this preemptive strike to consolidate all the datacenter/hosting entities to be encoded and emulated by their UTM. This will wipe out the competition who also offers computing resource consolidation.
Pairing Nanotechnology and Quantum computing, CTRT is running the Solar System’s largest particle accelerator housed in Pluto.
RB is heading to Pluto because CTRT is also having the same Dichotomy problem which is also affecting the avatars, resulting in schizophrenic behaviors of the semi sentient AIs.

And RB may have the answers. According to RB the Dichotomy problem is another expression of the same weird trait of quantum particles. When a muon is isolated from its environment, it enters into superposition, meaning it is in some mix of both spin up and spin down state.
But unknown to RB, the asteroid Apophis is carrying the answer which will raise many more questions. Apophis will make a planet fall (with Earth) on April 13, 2036.
The asteroid has been bumped up to level 4 on the Torino impact hazard scale and something sitting deep inside of Pluto is following the asteroid’s progress keenly.
But that is another story to be told next month…

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30. December 2008 by admin.

This is the time of the year when we look back and take a stock of the past twelve months. This is also the time to look forward to the New Year. In this short post I will go a little bit further and peek into the future for next 10-30 years.

AD 2028

A typical Monday morning for a VE consultant is to rush to the airport. Likewise RB walks in to the airport and realized that he has again forgotten his avatar’s power adapter and avatar’s battery is really low.

            (In early 2000s Avatar’s ancestors used to be the personal notebook computers)

No problem because his avatar switched his power source from local to Wireless Resonant Energy Link (WREL).

The beauty of WREL is that it delivers power safely and efficiently over the Wireless using a set of strongly coupled resonators. Energy is absorbed efficient at the receiving resonator’s neutral frequency.

 Avatar’s batteries are being recharged as RB walks within several feet of the transmit resonator.

The last cords in mobile devices were cut in AD 2022.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WREL_(technology)

While in transit RB receives a call from the PM (yes we still have them) and his avatar changes its shape from a screen to an ear piece. This technology of Programmable Matter is not perfected yet but RB likes to be in the bleeding edge and as a result he drops the call.

The Avatar’s shape-shifting material is built with millions of tiny micro-robots, called catoms. Unlike nano particles the catoms or these tiny silicon hemispheres are fabricated using photolithography (same technology used to make silicon chips in 2008). Each catom packs the necessary computational and mechanical components together across less than a millimeter of silicon real estate. Also the planar transistors are replaced with 3D transistors. Looking further out a variety of non-charge-based technologies will replace CMOS altogether.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_matter  The stratos-flight is as usual uneventful. RB has enough miles to indulge in the on-flight VR, while the robot attendants are serving refreshments. 

 Near the end of the second decade of 21^st century, robotics were made personal as robots started moving and manipulating objects in the dynamic and often clutter human environments. The long dream of moving robots out of the factory environment where they were designed to perform a single task repeatedly and bolted down, to mingle with humans was achieved in 2015. These flight attendants are cognizant of their surroundings and learn to adapt to new scenarios and universally they are more polite than their now obsolete human counterparts. 

RB disembarks the flight and walks towards the space elevator which will take him to Lagrange Point L4. One of RB’s oldest healthcare account’s research facilities is stationed there. RB is a virtualization specialist who will work with his biomedical counterparts to troubleshoot why some specialist avatars are suffering from schizophrenic paranoia when they are loaded with a proprietary conscious engine along side with their native open source conscious engine. Well ! that’s a tale for next time…..  

And we are making a steady progress towards Kurzweil’s Singularity  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity 

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