Author: Anumbor Ogor
This is the first edition of Hercules Top Tech Friday and today it would be about movies! Here we pick our top 10 tech movies based on the following that;
1. shows technologies that are feasible, that
is, not theoretical or ‘futuristic.’
2. features machines/devices’ materials
(metals, polymers, plastics, etc.) that can be accessed, maybe not necessarily
sourced locally in Nigerian market but is available.
3. can be reverse-engineered, that is, the
process of analyzing the possible construction and operation of a product in
order to make one.
So we would pay attention to the details of the
conspicuous technology features in those movies.
Number 10 - Stealth (2005)
The US government creates an Unmanned Ariel Vehicle (UAV) called EDI to be able to quietly and precisely take out its enemies in foreign countries. The robotic AI (Artificial Intelligence) plane starts as a trainee pilot on flight missions with other pilots. The purpose of the training was for the AI plane to learn but it not only learns but quickly proves itself as a super plane using face recognition systems to remotely identify its target and delivering dead shot missiles at the enemies.
The US government creates an Unmanned Ariel Vehicle (UAV) called EDI to be able to quietly and precisely take out its enemies in foreign countries. The robotic AI (Artificial Intelligence) plane starts as a trainee pilot on flight missions with other pilots. The purpose of the training was for the AI plane to learn but it not only learns but quickly proves itself as a super plane using face recognition systems to remotely identify its target and delivering dead shot missiles at the enemies.
After one of their combat missions, the UAV is
mistakenly struck by lightning and soon it begins to re-learn, anticipating
other people’s moves and eavesdropping their conversations, and building its own
personality. Things go haywire when the plane all of a sudden has its own ego
and starts creating its own terrorist hit list. The robotic plane disobeys its
human superiors and flies away to execute its hit-list, and one of its targets
is a Russian lab that is ‘theoretical’ and does not exist.
The plane had face recognition systems and
could hack networks that allowed it to track, locate, and destroy its target.
As of today we are in the golden age of drones
and according to Robert Farley drones are no longer relegated to
intelligence-gathering, surveillance, and reconnaissance but are main players
in the efforts against terrorists. Five countries that lead in UAV drone
technologies include; US, China, Israel, Iran, and Russia, all have a years head-start compared to many other countries. But United States, China, and Israel
would still be ahead 10 years from now.
Also, Face recognition systems have evolved
over the years with Facebook today having one of the highest recognition
accuracy (98%) close to humans.
The film cast includes: Jamie Foxx,John Lucas, Jessica Biel, Sam Shephard,
Joe Morton, Richard Roxburgh.
Number 9 - Eagle Eye (2008)
A young man (Shia LaBeouf)
receives a strange phone call; the caller has a female voice and by
coercive measures recruits the man along with a single-parent mum (Michelle
Monaghan) who has a son. The caller is an advanced AI surveillance system that has gone rogue and plans to use its two
new recruits to execute a coup to eliminate all United States ruling executives.
The film initially starts with the AI system that partially recognizes a
perceived enemy target with an accuracy of 51% that brings about sharp arguments
between the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the US Secretary of Defence who
recommends that a proposed drone air-strike be aborted because of insufficiency
in accuracy of the face recognition system, but his plea falls on deaf ears. The
aftermath of the strike subsequently sparked off increased terrorists attacks
against the US and as a result the AI is stirred and acts to eliminate all
those that were involved in that drone strike, that caused increased terror
attacks on US citizens. The AI system was planning to initiate and install a
new US government.
This movie was a full depiction among the many
concerns and threats of the possibility of AI system going rogue. Elon Musk,Steve Wozniak, Stephen Hawkings have been at the forefront of crusading for
regulations for unsupervised AI researches by tech corporations and countries. Recently,
we have seen partnerships from giant tech corporations responding by their
moves to create a non-profit organization for ethical AI researches.
Number 8 - Olympus Has Fallen (2014)
The popular “Most secure building in the World”-
the White-House is infiltrated and is brought down guerrilla style by a group of
foreign sophisticated mercenaries and they manage to take hostage the US President
(Aaron Eckhart), his deputy, and some secretaries. At this point, the Speaker
of the House (Morgan Freeman) takes helm as acting-President.
The most part of
the movie is about several dangerous attempts to regain control of the building
but this move proves to be costly and one of the high points in the movie was
when the White House’s AI advanced super weapon defence system (called the
Hydra) was activated by the terrorist. The Hydra system is super alert and
proactive, and pulverizes several external attack-attempts on the building.
A close to real-life system like the Hydra used in this movie is the Iron-dome. This system was deployed in 2014 in the Israel-Palestine conflict where 2100 Palestinians lost their lives compared to 73 Israelis (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/…/…/casualtiestotal.html). This sparked protests then of which many have tagged genocide.
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| The Iron Dome |
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| Iron Dome missile launch |
The Iron-dome was developed by Israeli engineers in the US and the $100 million Iron-dome per-unit cost is an AI-based anti-missile defence system that can detect and counter-strike incoming missiles with deadly precision.
Number 7 - Captain America; the Winter Soldier (2014)
Here, we highlight a scene where one-eyed foxy SHIELD boss, Nick Fury, a government spy who is marked for elimination in the most gruesome assassination attempt on his life. Fury (Samuel L. Jackson), in a bravado move inside his talking GM bullet-proof SUV manages to repel his assailants with a shock-therapy-attack that leaves them scattered.
In the unfolding drama, the spy has conversations with his car that suggests several counter-measures against his attackers; fortunately he escapes but is severely wounded. The car’s frontal wind screen also doubles as a full blown electro-chromic screen that displays several alerts on the screen; car status information, and even his health status. Before his attack, he had received a phone call with the caller-photo displayed on the windscreen and later performing real-time number plate scans of an oncoming vehicle.
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| wind screen displaying health status |
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| wind screen scanning number plate of oncoming vehicle |
Although in the movie, the onscreen display system is purely graphics/animation but the on-screen display system exists already today in cars and is fully functional, and is known as an Automotive HUD (Heads-Up-Display) system which has in the past mostly featured in planes but more recently in cars.
With sensors mounted around, the car is able to detect humans and recognize objects as well road-signs, and offer the driver on-screen suggestions. With augmented reality features, the diver can interact with the user interface (wind screen) by touching, swiping, or simply by voice. Manufacturers are already using a small portion of the windshield as the interface for adaptive cruise control, lane-departure warning or navigation. BMW 3 series, Mercedes-Benz C class and Cadillac ATS sport sedans - now offer such images with larger, full-color displays that can deliver turn-by-turn navigation instructions.
According to Wikipedia, Night vision information is also displayed
via HUD on certain General Motors, Honda, Toyota
and Lexus
vehicles. Other manufactures such as Audi, BMW, Citroën,
Nissan,
Mazda,
Kia,
Mercedes and Volvo
currently offer some form of HUD system. Motorcycle
helmet HUDs are also commercially available.
Number 6 - Furious 7 (2015)
The movie is a high-octane adrenaline action movie with great action scenes featuring a squad of street underground motor car racers who have been employed by a top secret agency to find an abducted female hacker who created a super hacking device called God’s Eye.
The movie
has stirred hacker communities and network specialist world-wide about the
possibility of a system like this.
Here is
what a commenter said on Quora:
God’s
eye was supposed to be a hacking program, that when connected to a computer can
through some magical wireless super internet connection, would be able to use
every other camera in the world that was connected to the magical wireless
super internet connection the whole world runs on to locate people with visual
face recognition software running in the background to locate somebody anywhere
in the entire world and really quick too.. like faster than you can download a
whole song on your smartphone. So that means it could get video from cell
phones, traffic cams, security cams, video cameras, cameras they were using to
film the movie, cameras in the Best Buy store, even the cameras they use on
satellites.
Note: this is so impossible, especially as a small add on the size of a usb thumb drive. We would probably need to invent some kind of never ending power source, let alone one network that could connect to all the different networks of the world to handle the load of information it would be scanning in such a short time. You could actually make a whole movie, even in make believe land, what all would be necessary to create a hack like that.
Note: this is so impossible, especially as a small add on the size of a usb thumb drive. We would probably need to invent some kind of never ending power source, let alone one network that could connect to all the different networks of the world to handle the load of information it would be scanning in such a short time. You could actually make a whole movie, even in make believe land, what all would be necessary to create a hack like that.
Other commenters;
Gods eye
is a software that recognizes your voice or face anywhere in the world it can
use and camera electronic thats on satellite network to find you.
The movie features several classic cars which
includes: the 1970 Dodge
Charger R/T, the 1970 Plymouth Barracuda, 1967 Chevrolet Camaro Z28, the
1989-94 Nissan Skyline GT-R R34, 2011 Dodge Challenger SRT-8, 2011 Bugatti
Veyron ($2.25 million), Ferarri 458 Italia, Aston Martin DB9 ($184,000), 2014
Maserati Ghibli, 2011+ Subaru Impreza WRX STi, and $3.4 million red Lykan
HyperSport.
The movie features Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Tyrese
Gibson, Kurt Russel, Chris Bridges (Ludacris), Jason Statham, Dwayne Johnson, Nathalie
Emmanuel.
References
Automotive HUD
Smart glass with woman – reference
Fast and Furious 7 List of Cars
What is God's Eye in the Movie Fast and Furious 7
https://www.quora.com/What-is-gods-eye-in-the-movie-Fast-and-Furious-7
https://www.quora.com/What-is-gods-eye-in-the-movie-Fast-and-Furious-7
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