"Smart Dust"..DARPA is very involved and we are screwed twice

[ElsewheresDaughter]

"1984" Orwell Alert!...okay the technology maybe a few years off but it sure is too scary for me....does anyone know anything about this nanotechnology? i just heard about for the first time today :scared:

Smart Dust Collecting in the Enterprise...siliconvalley.internet.com. October 24, 2003 Smart Dust Collecting in the Enterprise By Michael Singer It's about the size of a grain ...
www.siliconvalley.internet.com/news/article.php/3098551

Wired 11.06: START... START, cheat sheet. What Is Smart Dust, Anyway? ... Pinkroom (www.pinkroom.net). The father of smart dust is UC Berkeley electrical engineering professor Kris Pister. ...
www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.06/start.html?pg=10

PRIVACY MAY BE BLOWN AWAY LIKE 'SMART DUST' IN THE WIND. ... At that size and price, smart dust would have an enormous capability for good uses and misuses. ...
www.smalltimes.com/document_display.cfm?document_id=1935

[kanrok]

1. Read the novel "Prey" by Michael Crichton

It's in paperback. It's about this technology run amok. Actually a quick, fun read. Interesting too.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. kanrok...thanks ...will do...i need to get off the farm more...this ......

is some shit!...with "smart dust" they will be able to tract your every move even within your home....even read your pulse rate and tell whether you have sex and whether you work up a sweat while engaging in the act...well fuck me twice!

whether you go out for a walk or lay on the couch....breathe rate and body temp......damn they will even here me calling on my god>>>Oh God...they can listen to anything above a breath!

[DrBB]

3. "The Diamond Age" by Neil Stephenson

...is another. Though he's a very different style from Crichton.

[bigtree]

4. ‘Smart dust’ for the War on Terror

‘Smart dust’ for the War on Terror

The Berkeley student paper, The Daily Cal, proudly announced that “smart dust,” which was developed on the campus, will be spread in the UC Botanical Garden, Cory Hall on campus, the Bay Bridge and other locations. This “smart dust” is made up of many tiny (1 cubic millimeter) solar powered miniaturized computers equipped with transmitters. They will be scattered from the air like “dust” over areas for “monitoring purposes.” The UC website indicated funding came from DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency).

Swarming microbugs

Six months before 9/11, in February 2001, Sandia Labs developed and tested mobile, electronic microbugs “capable of silently scampering under a door, quietly rolling into a corner and eavesdropping on whatever is going on inside.” In addition to the miniature microphone, microsensors and radio transmitter already on these little microbugs, they hope to add a microcamera. That’s where nanotechnology fits in. If they can make one small enough using nanotechnology, they could even have videos or pictures from the “little buggers.”

Scientists are also hoping to get the microbugs to “communicate with each other and work in swarms, relaying their findings back to a manned station.” Already these bugs can “turn on a dime and park on a nickel.”

I can imagine how UC could use these home grown “bugs” to target women, minorities and untenured faculty as a new form of harassment. Five hundred women have filed lawsuits against UC, and many have described being mobbed for years. Livermore Lab and Los Alamos already have real time sophisticated surveillance for whistleblowers at the labs. Maybe UC President Atkinson could use swarms of microbugs to catch the thiefs at Los Alamos, Livermore and the Lawrence Berkeley Lab.

Mark Twain said, “Truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction, after all, has to make sense.”

http://www.sfbayview.com/022603/spying022603.shtml


References:

Nanotechnology: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030214/sc_nm/science_canada_nanotechnology_dc_1

Smart dust: “Smart Dust to Aid Military, Civilian Users,” http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=10951&ref=search; “UC

Berkeley Team’s ‘Smart Dust’ Gives Data Collection a Boost: Electronic Motes May Be Used to Fight Terrorism,” http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=8090&ref=search

Microbugs from Sandia: “Sandia Lab has seen the future, and it’s a tiny, computerized bug,” Oakland Tribune, Feb. 2, 2001, http://www.sandia.gov/media/NewsRel/NR2001/minirobot.htm

World class microbiologists murdered: “A Career in Microbiology Can Be Harmful to Your Health: Death Toll Mounting as Connections to Dyncorp, Hadron, Promis Software and Disease Research Emerge,” by M. Davidson and M. Ruppert, Feb. 28, 2002, http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/02_14_02_microbio.html

[bigtree]

5. NASA

Other pending applications for smart dust include NASA's interest in placing motes on Mars to record the temperature and movement on the surface. Also nanotechnology is being developed at NASA for use in cancer surgery.