The STARFISH PRIME Weapons Test in 1962 involved firing a 1.4 megaton nuke 250 miles above the Pacific. Electromagnetic surges traveled as far as Hawaii, about 900 miles away, causing damage to some telephone company equipment, making streetlights flicker, and garage doors open and close by themselves. There were no power outages, phone lines did... Continue Reading →

Sometimes a weapon comes along that is so crazy in design that we have a hard time putting it into a category. We have decided to call them “exotic weapons.” Swords of Might How to use mind control to create the so-called “zombie effect,” according to Igor Smirnov. “People’s actions can in fact be controlled... Continue Reading →

AI is here to stay! We best get used to it! The end of life as we know it! Mark Sagar, computer whiz and founder of Soul Machines, based in Auckland, New Zealand, says, “We are going to need to learn to cooperate with machines.” Sagar and his colleagues are attempting to create — how... Continue Reading →

There’s a lively debate today about what impact the fourth industrial revolution — artificial intelligence and robots— will have on the human job market. Will it devastate it or invigorate it? Your guess is as good as mine! Like the dinosaurs, 56-year-old Georgia resident Sherry Johnson never it coming. Robots put her out of work,... Continue Reading →