Do you know what “SMART DUST” is?
By: Dr. Samori Swygert
Omnipotent (all powerful), omniscient (all knowing), and omnipresent (present everywhere), these three terms are typically used to describe the attributes of God in many faiths and religions. Mankind is rapidly pursuing obtainment of these deity defining terms.
We’ve created the most sophisticated weaponry of mechanical, nuclear, and biological capacities to account for the quest of power. We’ve devised some of the most intricate, complex, and hi-tech methods of transportation from your car to MAC speed jet engines, to drones, to space shuttles that promise to usher humanity to space missions to Mars. This is our effort to demonstrate omnipresence. Lastly, we’ve made everything intelligent or smart: smart phones, smart computers, smart cars, smart refrigerators, smart chips, I-robots, and nano-technology to plead the case for being omniscient (all knowing).
If you’re familiar with my writings you may notice I love keeping up with environmental issues and the advances in technology. I was reading a book on Singularity by Ray Kurzweil, a leading expert in the field of robotics and human interface. He began discussing something called “Smart Dust”. He further explained how this smart dust would be disseminated all over the earth for supreme intelligence.
I began doing some online research about this technological advancement and was blown away by the potential, magnitude and implications of this “smart dust”. Basically smart dust are these tiny particles that are like the size of a grain of rice and are currently being made smaller than that. They possess microcomputers that sense and detect a variety of input. They will sense sound, temperature and climate, altitude, vegetation, terrain, position, molecular composition, motion, and an assortment of things. The capabilities are only limited to the imagination and ingenuity of the designer.
The objective is to spray this material over all cities, embed them in infrastructure, devices, and more with the objective of creating a smart society. This would lead to the monitoring of every square inch of earth. Society can then be measurable, predictable, and ultimately choreographed to the person or group in control of this vast array of knowledge.
I happened to watch the movie Transcendence with Johnny Depp and I see a direct parallel with what they were showing in the movie. I won’t go further to avoid spoiling the plot for you, but it’s a worthwhile film. How would you feel knowing that every single aspect of your life will be officially “bugged”? We are almost there.
I was reading some articles from MIT’s Technology Review and they actually have developed smart dust to be incorporated into the human brain and other body parts.
I’ll let you decide for yourself. Below are some articles and a Youtube video to expand the conversation.
What are your thoughts on this? Are we going to far? Is this what they’re spraying in the air and we think it’s plane exhaust?
http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/05/03/smart.dust.sensors/
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/517091/how-smart-dust-could-spy-on-your-brain/
