Table of Figures

Tables of Figures

Chapters

  1. Wargaming with Artificial Intelligence (DeMaio)

Figure  1-1: Colonel John Boyd’s Observation, Orientation, Decision, Action Loop

Figure  1-2: Human-Machine Teaming with Iron Man And Jarvis

Figure  1-3: The US Military in the Interwar Years (August 14, 2014)

Figure  1-4: Air, Sea, Land, Space, Cyberspace, And Ems Domains

Figure  1-5: U2 Photo of Chinese Balloon

Figure  1-6: Spectrum of Wargaming Across Air University

Figure  1-7a: CHUCK Attending Barnes Center Kingfish Ace Wargame

Figure  1-7b: CHUCK Enumerator

Figure  1-8: Strategy For Ai-Assisted Wargaming

  1. Mobility (Murthy)

Figure-2-1: Wireless Communications

Figure 2-2: Hierarchical View of Wireless Communication Systems

Figure 2-3: Cellular Internet Connectivity

Figure 2-4: Holistic View of Network Architecture

  1. Dancing With The Devil: V/R Serpents And The Metaverse Playground (McCreight)

Figure 3-1: Firefly Kids Using VR Glasses To Project Gears On The Walls In Stem Class

Figure 3-2: Nurse Reviewing Chest Xray To Project On 3-D VR Image For Details

Figure 3-3: Student Using AR/ VR To Design Tools

Figure 3-4: Child Expanding His Travel Universe Through VR

Figure 3-5: Experiencing VR With Enhanced Sound

Figure 3-6: VR-Headset-Holographic-Low-Poly-Wireframe-Vector-Banner-Polygonal-Man- Wearing-V/321871791

Figure 3-7: Microsoft-Going-Back-To-School-With-New-Version-Of-Windows-10-Surface-Laptop

  1. Principles and Practice of Plain Language Protocols: Helping Human Readers Find, Understand, and Use Important Information (Ackerman)

Figure 4-1: Academic Writing Attributes

Figure 4-2: Technical Writing Attributes

Figure 4-3: Flesch Reading Ease Formula

Figure 4-4: Flesch-Kincaid Grade-level Analysis Formula

Figure 4-5: Lincoln, Abraham. Gettysburg Address.1863.

Figure 4-6: Einstein, Albert. The Social Task of the Scientist in the Atomic Era. 1946.

  1. IoT Insecurities of Things (Murthy)

Figure 5-1: Representative Domains of IoT

Figure 5-2: Layered Architecture of IoT System

  1. Advanced Robotics – Transforming Humanity: The Autonomous Systems Shaping Our Future (Mumm)

Figure 6-1: Machine Based Decision Making (Mumm & Brand, 2020)

Figure 6-2: The Jetsons title slate from 1962 The Jetsons (Novak, 2012)

Figure 6-3: First Patented Mechanical Corn Planter (Staff, 2023)

Figure 6-4: The external communication of an autonomous vehicle

Figure 6-5: AgriRobo, Kubota based on an M5002. Photos: Mark Pasveer (Karsten, 2023)

Figure 6-6: Four-Legged Dog Robot (Boguslavsky, 2024)

Figure 6-7: This composite image shows a ‘Switchblade’ loitering munition drone launching from a tube and extending its folded wings. US Army AMRDEC Public Affairs

Figure 6-8: The Figure 01 humanoid has just scored its first job at a BMW plant in South Carolina. Figure

Figure 6-9: Useful work in the real world is the Figure’s sole focus. Figure

Figure 6-10: A Digit robot collaborates with humans for bin picking at Amazon.

Figure 6-11: The Flippy 2 robotic burger and fries chef now has its autonomous restaurant, Miso Robotics

Figure 6-12: AI-powered landscaping robot-Electric Sheep Robotics

Figure 6-13: (“Electric Sheep,” 2024)

Figure 6-14: Nvidia creates $9-an-hour AI ‘agents’ that outperform human nurses.

Figure 6-15: A conceptual rendering of the micromotors that can degrade bacterial cell walls, leading to their death. Image generated by DALL-E

Figure 6-16: BrainBridge-Breathing life into new bodies, one head at a time

Figure 6-17: (“The Drone Racing League, DraftKings announce sports betting agreement”)

Figure 6-18: (“CES 2024 RECAP: Charting The Future of Autonomous Mobility,” 2024)

Figure 6-19: First-ever jet suit race

Figure 6-20: Jet suit pilots in Dubai

  1. The intersection of Biotechnology and AI (Sincavage & Muehlfelder & Carter)

Figure 7-1: Beach Flight

Figure 7-2: Fiery Flight

Figure 7-3: Army Modernizes Its Biometric Processing Capabilities

Figure 7-4: Haboob Havoc

Figure 7-5: Hot Work

  1. Leveraging Advanced Technologies to Enhance Food Production (Larson)

Figure 8-1: Image of Bayer Climate FieldViewTM field overview of data presentation

Figure 8-2: Comparison of vegetation index maps of the study area constructed from satellite and unmanned aerial system imagery

Figure 8-3: Image of laser weeding vehicle

Figure 8-4: Demonstration of sample preparation for Techion FecPakG2 field microscope

Figure 8-5: John Deere’s concept of an autonomous electric tractor

Figure 8-6: BETSY, Bovine Expert Tracking and Surveillance, an artificial intelligence system developed by OneCup AI, identifies critical points on individual animals for identification

Figure 8-7: Sequential use of sensors, transmission, and data processing techniques that can be applied to various aspects of aquaculture production

Figure 8-8: Overview of innovative aquaculture system

  1. A Systems Dynamics View of Humanitarian Efforts (Ryan)

Figure 9-1: System Diagram

Figure 9-2: Simple Causal Loop Diagram

Figure 9-3: Chicken Model with Predation Included

Figure 9-4: Chickens and Eggs Stock and Flow Model

Figure 9-5: Example Stock and Flow Model with Embedded Hypothesis Testing

Figure 9-6: Variables in Predicting Future Events

Figure 9-7: Event Probability vs Event Impact

  1. Look Before You Leap Demystifying Quantum Computing’s Enigmatic Frontier (Sharkey)

Figure 10-1: AI-Generated Image Of Computer Scientist Contemplating The Quantum Realm

Figure 10-2: AI Rendering Of Futurist Origami-Based Spacecraft With Astronaut Aboard Hovering In A Solar System Above Some Landscape

Figure 10-3: AI Rendering Of Interconnected Computing Technologies

Figure 10-4: AI Rendering Of Alien Space Craft In Rotational Option In A Cosmological Space

Figure 10-5: Description Of Qubit As A Bloch Sphere And Related Quantities That Describe The States It Can Form

Figure10-6: Quantum Economic Advantage Of A Chosen Algorithm [MIT]

Figure 10-7: Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation As Measured By Quantum Sensing

  1. Social Media Influence & Humanity: Has it Worn Out its Welcome? (Lonstein)

Figure 11-1: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Circa 2005

Figure 11-2: Meerkat & Twitter

Figure 11-3: Cambridge Analytica (Courtesy Reuters)

Figure 11-4: World Crunch 2023

Figure 11-5: Protests after George Floyd’s Death 2020

Figure 11-6: Mark Zuckerberg Apologizes to Parents in Congress

Figure 11-7: Censorship by Proxy

  1. Feed the Planet (Knaple)

Figure 12-1: Hanging Gardens of Africa

Figure 12-2: Flow chart for Smart Supply Chain

Figure 12-3: Artist Rendering Vertical Solar And Wind

Figure 12-4: Smart City Image

Figure 12-5: Lake Kivu

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Advanced Technologies for Humanity Copyright © 2024 by Nichols, R.K.; Ackerman, P.E, Andrews, E., Carter, C.M., DeMaio, D.D., Knaple, B.S.,  Larson, H., Lonstein, W.D., McCreight, R., Muehlfelder, T., Mumm, H.C., Murthy, R., Ryan, J.J.C.H., Sharkey, K.L., Sincavage, S.M. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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