A Few Major 'Kodak Moments' Coming Soon On A Planet Nearest To You. Orang Melayu Sila Baca.

 In 1989 the digital cameras began to hit the mass market. By 1997 the old fashioned film cameras hit their peak and declined rapidly after that. In the first decade of the 21st century the film camera industry was dead. Along with it the sales of camera film also died and all those quite ubiquitous Kodak 'camera film processing centers' disappeared. A 'Kodak moment' had indeed occurred in the life of Kodak.

Kodak moment :  an occasion suitable for memorializing or remembering (with a photograph).

 

 

Then just about 20 years ago cameras became part of our mobile phones. Camera phones could not only take pictures but they also record video. This killed off both the still cameras and video camera industry. Who needs to buy a video camcorder anymore? Just buy a mobile phone. 

There are a few 'Kodak moments' like these coming soon (maybe within five years) in breakthrough technologies that will radically change the world. It will change the world in terms of economic growth, military power and of course world power-politics or geo-political weight. And almost all of these technological breakthroughs are coming from China. Russia is still leading in military technology but there too China will likely overtake them.

Both the Russians and Chinese have developed and put into operation hypersonic missiles that are capable of flying at super high speeds (above Mach 5 or five times the speed of sound).  These were Kodak moments in missile tech. 

Other countries have also developed hypersonic missiles but still with different capability.  Some hypersonic missiles are limited in their deployment. They can only be launched from fixed platforms, they may need heavy support equipment to get them airborne etc. The Russians can launch them from mobile launchers, from ships and submarines and from multiple aircraft. The Chinese are catching up too.  

Radar that can detect stealth aircraft are another Kodak moment. The Chinese are advanced in this area as well and we really do not know how far ahead the Chinese technology has gone. 

There is something called a fusion reactor which can not only replace all fission nuclear reactors in use today but it will in the long run end the need for oil and gas to generate power in the power stations. Plus the fusion reactor does not produce radiation. The fusion reactor 'fuses' hydrogen atoms and so its fuel source will be water. For over 60 years the West has been trying to develop a working model but it has been slow going. Germany and China are ahead in this technology but China seems to be increasing their lead by leaps and bounds. The Chinese may announce a working model within say five years. Bye-bye oil and gas. 

Both China and Russia are developing hypersonic drones. UAVs that can fly above Mach 5 and carry weapons. Because they are 'unmanned' they can be designed to make insane twists and turns beyond 9Gs (gravitational pull). 9Gs is about the maximum limit for human pilots. A hypersonic drone equipped with AI technology will be next to impossible to stop.

To "power" all these new technologies they will need terabytes, exabytes, zettabytes and yottabytes of computing power.  Which our present day computer chips do not have.

But not for long. The Chinese are approaching a technology breakthrough in something  called the 'photon chip'. The photon chip uses light to store information. Dont ask me how it works but it is super duper fast. It can store and process mathematical 0s and 1s to a capacity exponentially larger and quicker than any chip available today. 

Here is a short video by an American guy who has grasped what this means in the real world. More Kodak moments are indeed coming. 

 

 

Where does Malaysia stand? A few days back a video was circulating of that brain dead ostard wal retard talking about 'cara mengelak daripada dibangkitkan bogel' or  how to avoid from being resurrected naked (on the day of judgement). This seems to be the maximum kilobyte capacity of their brains. Very sad.

 The views expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of MMKtT.