Enough already....

So 2015 gives us the new Terminator movie, new reality...I wont bother giving you the low down, other than to stay, Arnie is back...

Now any films with a future war between human and machines usually gets my vote, but let's be honest, the T series was no Star Wars operatic world with a myriad of characters to develop along with story lines.

Essentially T5 appears to be a re-make of T1 for the youtube generation, which in itself isn't a bad thing; but with so many cool sci fi books out there (cough) why are we re-hashing a concept that worked the first time, was pushing it by the second and became a shell of itself by the third.

I did have a faint glimmer of hope for T4, I was hoping for a Batman-esque re-boot and we all know how that worked out.....

THE WORLD OF DS SWIFT

Nothing captures more the mood and setting of my novels more than the short film below:

Words do not do it justice, except the words of Carl Sagan....Enjoy!!!!

Future of Androids

THE ADROIDS OF DS SWIFT NOVELS>


I deliberately wanted to create something beyond the concept of androids, giving them a new name, ADROIDS.

So what are they?

Human level intelligence, but machines.

Machines but the ability to reproduce sexually between themselves. They are born rather than made in factories, although these synthetics are farmed in my future vision.


3rd Generation AINO (A -ARTIFICIAL  I-INTELLIGENT N-NEUROMORPHIC O-  
                                   ORGANISM ) Commonly known as ADROIDS.

Brain:

An artificial Neural Network that integrates both inorganic and organic: nanodevices, synthetic neurones and organic brain tissue from mammals (pig’s). Neural computing lends to learning rather than programming. The only hard programming are basic human ones: Fear of falling, loud noises, layered with a need to socialise, but with the strongest ‘instinct’ - never to harm humans or allow them to be harmed.

It was the pioneering work of Professor Hurmola of the University of Turku (Finland) and MIT(USA) who developed the first complex artificial brain capable of a human level of intelligence. His work stemmed from ground breaking work on the Neuromatrix theory that his creations using both organic and artificial neurons fused to have a sense of ‘self’ and revolutionised computers that could think and have personalities comparable to humans. 

Body:
 
Smart Carbon skeleton that has the ability to grow and heal itself. 

Organic skin and flesh covering served by synthetic oxygen carrier and small set of organic internal organs and small heart in chest cavity to maintain the skin. Growth is controlled by artificial brain.

Electro active polymers mechanism’s act as muscles that grow to adult size with nanodevices, served by smart hydrogen cell that uses food and water to power itself.

Sexual organs and tongue and eyes are organic of pig cell origin, served by internal organic organs. Sperm that develops in testes of AINO is a nucleus of sex cells and self replicating nanodevices that fuse with AINO female gendered Egg and nanodevices that ‘build’ a new cybernetic organism.

Female AINO have artificial wombs and gestate embryo cybernetic organism to self sufficiency- 6 months.

Glucose powered fuel cells

Life expectancy:

Around 100 years. Limitless with organ transplants and fuel cell replacement.  

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So often in Sci Fi we have this divide between synthetics as either impossible to tell from ourselves or horrifyingly different.....

Or somewhere between the two, even when posed as humour (light relief characters)

My approach with the DS SWIFT novels was a synthetic that was human like, but one that was impossible to view as human. In this future, Adroids give a signature to humans that identifies them as non human. They are akin to how humans in the first world often see humans from remote societies in undeveloped regions of the world, human like, but not quite like them, something inferior or indeed superior (the noble savage) the same but very very different: