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SandQueen
01-21-2012, 06:13 PM
January 17, 2012: Britain's Ministry of Defense announces that they will be phasing out certain positions and personnel Article (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16588436)

July 1st, 2012: Will Rosellini (http://www.willrosellini.com/) approaches Ray Kurzweil (http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html) about a concept that would implant the technology bluetooth headset into a person's skull, interfacing with their bring and the inner workings of their ear directly. Using research gathered from his work on dealing with Tinnitus, Rosellini has started looking into compact transponders nervous system stimulation.

August 28, 2012: Ray Kurzwil contacts Kevin Warwick (http://www.kevinwarwick.com/) about his work with Rosellini. Warwick has a history of cybernetic postulation as well as a broad knowledge of neural/machine concepts.

September 1, 2012: Hugo De Garis (http://www.kurzweilai.net/hugo-de-garis) is hired by Raytheon to further the development of unmanned weaponry, particularly drones and surveillance systems. He is unsure at first but after the defense company offers an undisclosed sum he agrees to work for them.

September 30, 2012: Hugo De Garis sends an e-mail to Peter Diamandis (http://www.diamandis.com/) asking for his input a number of Raytheon's aeronautic designs.

December 23, 2012: Rosellini, Kurzweil, and Warwick test a prototype of their device. It can receive calls which are related by vibrating the bones in the ear canal softly enough to not causing hearing damage. It communicates with the user's cell phone via Bluetooth.

March 1, 2013: Rosellini, Kurzweil, and Warwick's device can now send calls as well using a vocal receiver. The phone now only serves to store numbers and receive text messages.

March 16, 2013: Kurzweil is contacted by a close friend of his, Marc Maurer (http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Marc_Maurer_Bio.asp) current president of the National Federation of the Blind. Maurer once again conveyed his condolences for Kurzweil's development and continued research into Text-to-speech scanning devices. The call was simply one of courtesy but at the time it created a spark that could not be ignored.

April 30, 2013: Hugo De Garis develops a limited intelligence protocol that uses thermal imaging to track crowd movements and includes outliers to determine the probability of stray individuals being potentially hostile.

May 3, 2013: Diamandis sends Hugo De Garis a concept a friend of his drew up for an unmanned drone that according to mathematics would be able to stay airborne for longer than a Predator Drone. De Garis sends to concept to his supervisor in Raytheon.

June 20, 2013: Diamandis becomes a part time consultant for Raytheon, his associate his hired full time and begins working side by side with De Garis in the development of a new drone.

September 10, 2013: Kurzweil shows a design of his Rosellini mapping out how one could make computerized eyes.

November 28, 2013: Kurzweil, Rosellini, and Warwick submit their audio-receiver to the FDA and National Institute of Health for approval.

January 25, 2014: Neil deGrasse Tyson (http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/tyson/) is appointed to head the National Science Foundation.

February 16, 2014: Advanced Armament Corporation begins investing heavily into researching caseless ammunition.

March 30, 2014: Cerberus Capital Management and Walmart form a cooperative agreement to support each other in world-wide business endeavors.

April 16, 2014: Hugo De Garis finishes work on a prototype surveillance drone for Raytheon, the project begins testing under the heading Dove-1.

May 30, 2014: Warwick, Rosellini, and Kurzweil's device is deemed unfit for production by the National Institute of health. The trio though do not admit defeat and instead continue working on it.

July 26, 2014: The Dove-1 enters official trials with the US Air Force.

October 17, 2014: After many long nights of research and development Warwick, Rosellini, and Kurzweil submit a modified device to the National Institute of Health and FDA.

January 2, 2015: Kurzweil constructs a rudimentary cybernetic eye and shares it with Rosellini and Warwick. His prototype is featured in the March issue of Popular Science and Wired.

April 27, 2015: Kurzweil, Rosellini, and Warwick's device is approved by by the National Institute of Health and FDA. It now includes an inbuilt memory chip which allows someone to store and program contacts by voice.

July 1, 2015: Kurzweil forms Kurzweil Biotech and asks Rosellini and Warwick to join him. Rosellini draws up paperwork to fold his company, Microtransponder, into Kurzweil Biotech. Warwick declines.

June 6, 2015: His contract effectively over Hugo De Garis leaves Raytheon.

September 21, 2015: Kurzweil Biotech begins talks with AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile concerning cell coverage for their device (now dumbed a Cell-Ear)

October 25, 2015: After returning to his home in China, Hugo De Garis is approached by Diamandis once more to start working with him on a new project. De Garis agrees so long as he doesn't have to move to a different country again.

January 1, 2016: The first consumer available Cell-Ears go on sale.

January 19, 2016: Advanced Armament Corporation unveils functional, but still prototype, caseless weaponry at the Las Vegas Shot show convention.

February 23, 2016: Kurzweil and Rosellini begin devoting more time and money to develop the cybernetic eye.

March 8, 2016: The Raytheon Dove-1 is accepted into the US Air Force as the Monarch. It logs flight times lasting 60 hours in good conditions and can warn its operator of potential threats on the ground below by utilizing its intelligent thermal scanning technology. Raytheon begins work on a successor.

May 6, 2016: After repeated tensions, posturing, and aggression Britain declares war on Argentina, entering the Second Falklands War.

October 26, 2016: China unveils a fully unmanned drone to support its military. The drone can be tasked to a location and then will autonomously track humanoid heat sources.

January 13, 2017: Kurzweil and Rosellini create working prototypes of cybernetic eyes. The pair contact Hugo De Garis about helping them implement them. De Garis agrees but says that it will be a few months till he finishes a project he's working on in China.

April 8, 2017: Kurzweil Biotech forms a partnership with Tanagram (http://tanagram.com/) which had been working on Augmented Reality interfaces in gasmasks and helmets for emergency workers and military personnel.

May 16, 2017: Kurzweil Biotech partners with Touch Bionics (http://www.touchbionics.com/products/active-prostheses/i-limb-ultra/) makers of the iLimb series of prosthetics.

May 30, 2017: Kurzweil Biotech partners with Ossur Prosthetics (http://www.ossur.com/?PageID=12613)

September 1, 2017: Hugo De Garis arrives in the US to begin working with Kurzweil Biotech.

October 1, 2017: Foxconn (http://www.foxconn.com/) begins work on artificial limbs featuring computerized components and limited AI interfaces.

November 16, 2017: Russia's OKB (http://www.aviation.ru/okb.php) begins serious work into unmanned weaponry as well as the designs into energy weapons.

November 30, 2017: Hugo De Garis moves the US in order to work with Kurzweil Biotech full time.

January 17, 2018: Advanced Armament Corporation reveals more work into caseless ammunition at Shotshow. KAC also unveils caseless ammunition concepts.

January 27, 2018: Norinco (http://www.norinco.com/c1024/index.html) acquires a number of small electronics companies throughout China and Southern Asia.

March 16, 2018: The Second Falklands War spills into Chile.

April 2, 2018: Kurzweil Biotech present their cybernetic eyes to the National Institute of health and FDA for approval.

April 20, 2018: Russia begins rudimentary testing of Unmanned weaponry, primarily an unmanned tank.

May 5, 2018: Foxconn begins distributing digitized prosthetic limbs
across Asia and Europe to anyone in need.

July 4, 2018: Norinco announces that they are in development of energy based weaponry.

October 31, 2018: Russia tests an unmanned quadrupedal infantry support vehicle.

November 11, 2018: Raytheon begins testing the successor to the Monarch, known as the Morpho. Primary changes are a fully unmanned interface and the ability to mount air-to-surface missiles. Initial tests are show that more work needs to be done.

February 14, 2019: Kurzweil Biotech's Cyber-eye receives approval. Furthermore many insurance plans cover it.

March 6, 2019: Norinco field tests its first complete energy weapon, an artillery piece to be mounted on a battleship. The world watches in horror at the devastating display.

August 17, 2019: OKB unveils functional, man portable energy weapons. Their use is limited though as the lightest requires a 40lb power pack to function.

October 20, 2019: KAC and Advanced Armament Corporation form a partnership.

November 12, 2019: The Second Falklands War ends, numerous political leaders from South America openly condemn Britain for their show of force, especially against partisan fighters and civil militias.

November 20, 2019: Kurzweil Biotech's Cyber Eye enters widespread consumer availability.

January 31, 2020: The UK's ministry of defense accelerates their budget cutting process and meets their goal of reducing personnel. Many veterans of the recent war are now out of work with none of their previous benefits.

February 26, 2020: After repeated confrontations the US enters war with Iran.

March 1, 2020: Former Rear Admiral Nathaniel Swift forms Blue Water International, a private military firm based out of Manchester that quickly becomes a haven for British military veterans.

March 17, 2020: After Iranian military commanders threaten to utilize Nuclear weapons the US Department of Defense hastily form contracts with a number of private military firms, no doubt to avoid news coverage of flag draped coffins. They contact Triple Canopy, Dyncorp, and newly founded Blue Water International.

April 1, 2020: Russian AI weaponry is seen in support of Iranian units.

April 24, 2020: Iran is forces to surrender after a brutal campaign conducted by Private Military Firms. Iran attempts to gain support from the UN in their condemnation of the US but finds few willing to side with them after their threat of Nuclear war. Many though take note of the success of the private military companies.

July 4, 2020: Kurzweil Biotech is contracted by the Department of Defense to provide enhanced prosthetics to US troops that were wounded in Iran. They are also contacted by representatives from the Private Military firms seeking to look after their employees.

July 25, 2020: The Air Force finishes testing of the Morpho.

October 28, 2020: After a series of very successful negotiations, Dyncorp owner Cerberus Capital Management contacts Kurzweil Biotech.

December 1, 2020: Cheaper products from Kurzweil Biotech and their sister companies can be purchased as Walmart.

January 29, 2020: A UN sponsored security committee launches an investigation into Russia's unmanned weapon program.

March 3, 2020: Kurzweil Biotech forms a cooperative agreement with the National Institute of Health to begin research into Nanotechnology.

April 16, 2020: Raytheon and Boeing begin developing a prototype of the Aurora, a scram-jet transport plane.

September 27, 2020: Diamandis once again is called in to assist Raytheon.

October 12, 2020: The UN security committee sent to Russia finds that their research and development of AI weaponry as well as Energy weapons to be entirely level. Their trade with Iran was legitimate as well.

December 24, 2020: Russia becomes a member of NATO.

January 15, 2021: AAC and KAC part ways citing corporate differences. Both companies research into caseless ammunition grinds to a halt as they enter legal purgatory.

March 5, 2021: Major legal allegations are raised against Foxconn after their newest prosthetic leg unit severely electrocutes an estimated 1.5 million users.

September 6, 2021: Warwick begins a new AI project, one that will interface with the human consciousness as confirmed by an interview in Wired.

November 29, 2021: China begins moving troops into Tajikistan and Pakistan supposedly to provide security for migrant workers and to supplement infrastructure building.

to be continued....

SandQueen
01-22-2012, 10:14 AM
January 25, 2022: General Electric announces that they are developing a working prototype of an armored and powered exoskeleton, possibly in response to Russia's AI weaponry

March 6, 2022: Warwick unveils the first "Wet Drive" a functional hard drive that is implanted into the brain. The Wet Drive can interface with the Cell-ear and Cyber eye in order to download information, upload memory and vision to external sources, and superimpose it over the users vision in real time.

April 1, 2022: Kurzweil Biotech submits the Wet Drive to the National Institute of Health for review.

October 23, 2022: China starts fielding energy-based artillery in Tajikistan and Pakistan, they fill a role similar to Recoilless Rifles and are generally mounted on jeeps and tanks.

November 17, 2022: Kurzweil Biotech develops nanomachines that serve to regulate insulin and adrenaline levels. Effectively curing Diabetes and making great steps towards managing high cholesterol.

December 4, 2022: Warwick's Wet Drive receives approval.

January 23, 2023: GE delivers its first exo-armor to the Department of Defense for testing.

March 2, 2023: The Kurzweil Biotech Wet Drive enters mass production. In the weeks that follow Microsoft, Apple, Sony, Toshiba, and Seagate begin work on supplementary software and alternative hardware.

March 16, 2023: China announces that it intends to annex Pakistan and Tajikistan.

April 28, 2023: China leaves the UN

May 3, 2023: Tajikistan and Pakistan leave the UN

May 12, 2023: Mongolia leaves the UN

June 1, 2023: North Korea sides with China

June 29, 2023: The Pan-Asiatic league is founded in Beijing.

July 6, 2023: The government of India contracts Blue Water International to supplement boarder security near Pakistan.

July 16, 2023: Dyncorp Private Military Contractors are hired by OPEC in order to secure Oil fields. Most seems to have modifications from Kurweil Biotech.

October 25, 2023: GE's Exo-armor is approved for field use

December 31, 2023: Raytheon completes the Aurora

January 29, 2024: The Aurora makes its maiden flight, clocking a top speed of Mach 10.

March 27, 2024: Russia begins selling AI weaponry to nations throughout Europe and the Middle East. It is suspected that their struggling Energy weapon program has been leaching their defense budget.

April 7, 2024: Kurzweil Biotech releases free software to all Wet Drive users that allows nanomachines to interface and update at real time to meet changing biochemistry and health conditions, also improving the overall neural interface of prosthetic limbs.

April 8, 2024: Warwick begins work on an Artilect (artificial intellect) that can interface with his Wet Drive. The intent is to allow a Wet Drive to learn, update itself, and in the long run improve the overall brain function of the user.

May 1, 2024: Raytheon submits the Aurora to NASA and the US Airforce for militarization of field testing.

September 12, 2024: 60% of Cars and trucks in the US operate entirely off of batteries.

October 1, 2024: Kurzweil Biotech and its supporting companies release updated nanomachines which can modify themselves to perform all manner of supplementary medical roles by simply downloading patient information from any computer or via Wet Drive. Blood-born diseases disappear almost overnight.

November 2, 2024: The Department of Defense commissions Kurzweil Biotech to develop a GPS interface for Wet Drives and Nanomachines so that they can better track the movements of soldiers and military personnel.

December 25, 2024: Kurzweil Biotech distributes Nanomachines free of charge to more than a dozen impoverished nations in Africa. The Nanomachines are similar to their blood-born units but instead designed to purge water of pollutants.

January 15, 2025: Remington announces that it is partnering with Advanced Armament Corporation.

January 16, 2025: KAC enters a corporate merger with Heckler and Koch of Germany.

March 20, 2025: KAC and AAC settle out of court of an undisclosed sum following their corporate break up.

April 13, 2025: The World Health Organization launches major allegations against Foxconn following another outbreak of faulty prosthetics. Foxconn draws support from the Pan Asiatic League which files legal charges against the WHO for slander.

July 4, 2025: GE unveils is second models of Exo-armor.

July 6, 2025: The Aurora enters limited service in the US Air Force and a number of other NATO states.

August 5, 2025: The WHO issues a formal apology to Foxconn in order to pry itself from a multi-national legal quagmire.

October 3, 2025: Kurzweil Biotech completes work on the GPS/ Wet Drive interface.

October 13, 2025 Warwick completes work on his Artilect program. Kurzweil Biotech begins distributing the program through Walmart in the US, Asda in the UK, and Seiyu in Japan.

November 24, 2025: China begins distributing energy based weaponry, mostly artillery but a few man-portable units as well, to its allies in the Pan Asiatic league. These new weapons are utilized extensively in boarder security. North Korea and Pakistan begin work on reverse engineering them.

December 14, 2025: Russia announces that it has achieved some success with plasma-based artillery and man-portable weaponry.

January 20, 2026: Remington, KAC, Heckler and Koch, and AAC all unveil Caseless Ammunition concepts at Shot show.

March 23, 2026: Utilizing Wet Drive and Artilect technology Russia begins developing AI weaponry that can think and adapt to changing orders and battlefield conditions.

August 15, 2026: The US Congress raises major concerns following a number of high profile cases of electronic piracy and identity theft stemming from Wet Drive and Nanomachine usage.

September 12, 2026: 70% of Cars and Trucks throughout the US and Europe utilize full battery power.

November 16, 2026: Russia Initiates the "Cossack Initiative" within its military. The program fits soldiers with Networked Wet Drives and Nanomachines so that they can share each others senses and memories.

December 12, 2026: Numerous media outlets attack Kurzweil Biotech and their constituents concerning their sales to people who do not require prosthetics for medical reasons, citing that their products have made the poverty gap even worse throughout the US and EU.

January 26, 2027: Following a series of boarder skirmishes war breaks out between the Pan Asiatic League, India, Afghanistan, Japan, South Korea, and Russia. Blue Water International's contract is renewed by the government of India. Afghanistan's military is quickly supplemented by Dyncorp following OPEC's financial decline. The US sends troops and equipment to Japan and South Korea.

January 27, 2027: GE releases their third model of EXO-Armor, this version includes full interfacing software for Wet Drives, Nanomachines, and Artilect support. The new armor is quickly put into full production to support the war in Asia.

March 29, 2027: Kurzweil Biotech begins working with Veteran's Hospitals to outfit wounded soldiers from the US with Prosthetics quickly.

September 16, 2027: Kurzweil Biotech extends its Veteran services to Japan, India, and South Korea.

October 12, 2027: Russia fields Artilect Weaponry in Northern China. Their success rate is astonishing.

December 6, 2027: US and Japanese forces invade mainland China, making amphibious and airborne landings across its coast.

February 19, 2028: Soldiers sporting prosthetics are cycled back into combat after being wounded in the early phases of the war.

March 8, 2028: Russia launches a Neutron Bomb, detonating it over Beijing. The bomb blankets the city in radioactive fallout and disables electronic devices, including prosthetics limbs and Wet Drives, across the surrounding area.

March 9, 2028: The Pan-Asiatic league is abolished and China surrenders.

March 10, 2028: The UN raises massive allegations against Russia, accusing them of War Crimes and Humanitarian atrocities for their use of Neutron Weaponry.

March 11, 2028: Russia leaves NATO

September 2, 2028: China starts getting carved up by allied forces attempting to rebuild, impose their authority, and salvage any sort of resources. India begins a series of violent seizures of land in Pakistan with support from Blue Water International. Japan and the US begin distributing Nanomachines to remove the radiation from Beijing. Fighting continues in North and South Korea. Russia begins securing large sections of Norther China and seizing dozens of military instillations.

October 2, 2028: Following an article in Time Magazine the term "Second Cold War" enters common usage.

December 18, 2028: Russia begins supplementing their own Energy Weapon program with Chinese technology. The country continues to distribute AI and Artilect weaponry to Eastern Europe and the Middle East as well as private citizens. Anyone with the money really.

January 19, 2029: Kurzweil Biotech becomes Kurzweil Biotech Solutions International with offices throughout Europe, the US, India, Japan and now China.

February 2, 2029: Foxconn begins an anti-Kurzweil advertising campaign throughout Asia.

March 20, 2029: Heckler and Koch begin mass production of functional caseless weaponry in Europe. Cost is somewhat prohibitive though. KAC begins the same in the US.

September 11, 2029: China is readmitted to the UN. Their economy is in ruins and after Russia effectively stripped their military of anything of value their entire defense network is in tatters. The US and Japan continue to work closely with the nation as their rebuild.

December 3, 2029: Beijing is declared safe to live in once more after the Nanomachine treatment.

January 18, 2030: Remington and AAC are contracted by the US government to begin developing a new series of infantry rifles.

March 8, 2030: Heckler and Koch begins developing Mag-rail weaponry.

June 3, 2030: GE unveils its fourth and fifth model of Exo-Armor. The Fifth model is heavier, capable of mounting weaponry that allow it to stand up against conventional battle tanks.

July 4, 2030: To make room in their arsenals and stockpiles the US begins selling Exo-Armor to other countries, particularly smaller European states, Israel, and India.

September 12, 2030: An estimated 80% of cars and trucks in the US, Europe, and China make exclusive use of Batteries.

November 3, 2030: OPEC dissolves

January 18, 2031: Heckler and Koch unveils a working prototype of a man-portable rail-rifle.

April 16, 2031: Due to increased economic destabilization citizens in Algeria, Angola, Ecuador, Iran, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela begin to riot.

September 30, 2031: US and Japanese forces withdraw from China.

November 22, 2031: The presence of Russian AI Weaponry and Artilect units in the hands of middle eastern governments forces a number of groups to enter the region for peacekeeping. Blue Water International and the British Military work in tandem to secure population centers in Algeria and Angola. The US, Dyncorp, and Triple Canopy enter Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Russia begins talks with Venezuela, Iran, and Ecuador

December 21, 2031: North and South Korea agree to a cease-fire.

February 14, 2032: Israel closes its boarders to Arab refugees.

March 8, 2032: Ray Kurzweil dies following the completion of the first Kurzweil biotech facility in Israel.

April 3, 2032: Foxconn begins supplying prosthetics and biotechnology to the governments of half a dozen middle eastern nations in an effort to ease their economic and social issues.

May 17, 2032: Foxconn achieves a major presence in the middle east with their simple, uncomplicated products.

September 25, 2032: Foxconn becomes a partner of Al-Jazeera

October 14, 2032: Foxconn leverages is influence throughout the Middle East to condemn Kurzweil and in doing so casts the array of foreigners trying to stabilize the region in a very bad light.

December 24, 2032: Israeli Troops open fire on a group of Iranian Refugees

January 1, 2033: Iran declares war on Israel

January 2, 2033: The US declares war on Iran again

January 3, 2033: Russia, Ecuador, and Venezuela declare war on the US

January 4, 2033: Britain declares its support of the US

January 5, 2033: Revolutionaries in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates declare their support of Russia.

January 6, 2033: India begins moving troops towards Afghanistan in order to move against Russia should the need arise.

January 7, 2033: Present Day