Soon, the trees will be listening.
There are plenty of gardeners that talk to their plants in the belief that it helps them grow. While plants aren't likely to be eavesdropping on our conversations anytime soon, they could be gathering different types of intelligence if a new DARPA program bears fruit. The agency is pursuing research into genetically modifying plants to turn them into self-sustaining surveillance sensors.
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The aim of the program is to genetically modify certain plants so that specific response mechanisms are triggered when they are presented with specific stimuli. It is suggested that existing hardware can be used to remotely monitor these responses so the plants could essentially be used as organic sensors. As such, the program won't seek to develop new hardware for this purpose, but rely on existing technologies that can already measure such things as a plants' temperature, chemical composition and reflectance.
If this tech is successful, we'll need Aeon Flux.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:01PM
where are my flux capacitors, I need to get out of these barbaric times.
A time where plutonium was easy to obtain from Libyan terrorists would be good.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Thursday November 23 2017, @03:03PM
Has DoD ran out of men to stare at goats or ran out of goats?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 23 2017, @04:03PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @05:26PM
Big blusher is watching you!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 23 2017, @11:30PM
wait, my colon is saying "what's the frequency, kenneth?"