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Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Invisible tanks will watch you 

The news in this Daily Telegraph (UK) story, "Invisible tanks could be on the battlefield within five years," isn't just about invisible tanks with perfect camouflage and transparent armor. No! Reading all the way to the end, we learn the invisible tanks with perfect camouflage and transparent armor will be watching us and identifying suspicious behavior:
Also being developed is a technology known as "biometric integration," which uses advanced algorithms to analyse crowds and to search for potential threats from suicide bombers by analyzing suspicious behavior in groups or individuals.

Electronic scanners would search for suspicious behavior, inappropriate clothing or individuals on wanted lists who can be identified through facial or iris recognition. The information would then be displayed on screen within vehicle or handheld vehicles carried by dismounted troops.

Hisham Awad, the head of the Future Protected Vehicle project, said: "The trick here is to use machines to do what they are best at (and humans are not) -- ploughing very quickly through dull, repetitive data [...] Then you can quickly bring human intelligence to bear where it excels - making life-or-death decisions based on 'real time' information on suspicious activity flagged up by the machines."
Life-or-death decisions, when seconds count, based on the invisible cybertank's opinion of your wardrobe. Don't you feel safer already?
Posted by: Allen Varney / 6:05 PM

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