Glossary of terms

The SR-75, the first AURORA
program's craft in use in 1989

AURORA Program

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The code name for an ongoing US "Black Program" to build and test advanced aerospace technology funded by the SDI and most primarily located at Groom Lake (Dreamland) in the Nevada desert and sites in Alaska,Greenland and the Pacific ocean (obvious locations where the risk of uninvited eyes minimized. The program was named after aurora borealis, which refers to the atmosphere's most upper gas substance.
On the left a 3D representation of the SR-75 (the Penetrator), a hyper-sonic spy-plane that also acts as a "mother-ship" to mini-drones. It is believed that the AURORA program has since delivered at least a dozen technologically ultra advanced air-crafts, most bearing extra-terrestrial (reversed-engineered) technologies including Plasma Shield PropulsionPlasma Shield Propulsion.

Bio-engineering
The science of engineering biological organisms (such as humans, animals and plants) and perfecting biological organisms into evolved (engineered) organisms. Food can be perfected and humans can become smarter.

Cryo-protectactnt
A gel-like fluid used in the organs transplantation business and in cryonics. It protects organic material from decading.

DNA Synthesizer
A device for manufacturing DNA artificially.

Exocortex
A theoretical artificial, external information processing system that would augment a brain's biological high-level cognitive processes.

Gondocopter
An experimental way of transportation currently in conceptual development. It's a mesh-up of two, already existing transportation methods: the Gondola and Helicopter.

Hydrogen Crystal Fuel

Light Peak technology
Ultra fast data transfer, faster then 100 GB per second (expected by the year 2016) to up to a few TB's per second (expected by the year 2020) not referring to network, wireless or internet speed but only within devices (such as hard-drives and optical data sources).

Plasma Shield Propulsion

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A technologically highly advanced propulsion mechanism first discovered in the crashed Roswell craft and since been reverse-engineered and used in several top-secret air-crafts since the early 90's. The existence of this technology is officially denied, although many proof has showed over the years. Plasma Shield Propulsion allows ultra fast travel speeds at super-sonic, hyper-sonic, ultra-sonic and sub-sonic level.

Qi2 (Qi 2.0)

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A next-generation wireless charging standard widely expected to be introduced in 2015. This new standard will enable charging over greater distances (up to 10 meters) and with enhanced efficiency. The current standard, the first generation Qi, is still relatively inefficient (much loss of energy) and has to be used within a very small distance of no more then a meter or two.



Semantic Web
Also called Web 3.0, semantic web combines socially sourced information curated by a highly refined, personalizable algorithm.

Shape Shifting Matter
A technology that can allows the shape of objects to change. The technology, currently in labratory development, evolves around nanoscopic glass spheres with processing power and voltaic for generating electric pulses to run microscopic circuitry. The technology is expected to become available around the year 2020. Also see: programmable matter.

Traincopter
An experimental way of transportation currently in conceptual development. It's a mesh-up of two, already existing transportation methods: the Gondola and Helicopter.

An artistic interpretation
of transhumanism (H+)

Transhumanism or H+ or >H

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Transhumanism is a global intellectual- and cultural movement supporting, researching and developing new sciences, technologies and concepts to enble the enhancement of human (physical- and cognitive) abilities and ameliorate what it regards to be undesirable or unnecessary aspects of the human condition, such as body features, limitations, diseases, aging and death. Trans-humanist thinkers study the possibilities and consequences of developing and using human enhancement techniques and other emerging technologies for these purposes.

How a bionic eye works

Examples of future transhumanic applications include bionic eyes, air filter implants, bio-skin and genetic enhancements. Some people argue against transhumanism stating that we simply cannot play God, but as time moves on and the human species is always progressing no matter what, the fine line that seperates us currently from bio-technical enhancements is fading away slowly but surely. In fact, who would have though 20 years ago that we would be physically- and morally able to clone a human organ and transplant it back into a human body? Yet it is done on weekly basis, in several places in the world.