A Possible Scenario For 2017: Terminator-Style

I have been scratching my head (and other parts) trying to figure out what's up with 2017.
I mean, the year 2017 does not exist in my consciousness...
http://fatherdaughtertalk.blogspot.com/2014/11/whats-up-with-2017.html

All the other years are there: the painful process of trying to get through the telephone and media attacks running up to the presidential elections of 2016, the hazy future of 2018, a blip for 2019, and a future unclear from then on.
The point is not that the picture is unclear or hazy; the point is, to quote a fine figure and to make a fine point of it, is that 2017...

"...  It's not there, Mac !"

 

 (Donald Moffat as Garry to...

Kurt Russel as MacReady... 

in John Carpenter's The Thing)

Here's a maybe-why or a possibly-might scenario dealing with equity market flash crashes, about which I have written before:
Breakdown: A Glimpse Inside the 'Flash Crash'
By Scott Patterson
June 10, 2012 5:56 p.m. ET
 http://online.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303296604577454330066039896

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Pools of Darkness

In the weeks and months following the flash crash, a fierce debate erupted over what had become of the stock market. Angry words were exchanged in the halls of Capitol Hill, on financial television shows and at trading firms in New York and Chicago.

Congress held panel discussions. The Securities and Exchange Commission grilled the previously unknown chieftains of the high-speed merchants, including Mr. Cummings of Tradebot and Mr. Peterffy of Timber Hill.

The complex, labyrinthine nature of the market vexed ordinary investors. Years ago, before the rise of electronic networks, most trading took place at the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq.

BY 2012, trading occurred in roughly seventy different venues, including giant hedge funds and banks. So-called "dark pools," private markets in which trading took place away from public exchanges such as the NYSE, accounted for more than 10% of all U.S. stock trades, according to Tabb Group.

As the markets slid into discrete pools of darkness, investors, too, had been left in the dark.

It is only our dire lack of imagination that forces us into Terminator 2 and Terminator 3 modes of envisaging the future.

Skynet may destroy the future of many generations of mankind as effectively with a Flash Crash of equity markets, power grids, and many other complex system which have abandoned human oversight and control, as with the robotic armies sweeping through the streets of Los Angeles.

We have trouble imagining the banes to come that we have not yet afflicted ourselves with.

We will have placed the Robot boot upon our skulls.

Despair is worse than slavery.

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The Rise Of The Robots

 Typical ultra-fast extreme events caused by mobs of computer algorithms operating faster than humans

Typical ultrafast extreme events caused by mobs of computer algorithms operating faster than humans can react.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-09-sudden-global-ecology-interacting-robots.html#jCp

In this blog we have written of the future flash crashes of financial markets awaiting us, and the fact that, despite the obvious danger of the lack of human control, nothing is being seriously done to slow these systems down and return them to human control.

There is an obvious danger in being so beguiled by technology and the speed by which new things can be contrived and new revenue streams can be constrained to enrich the wealth holders. The danger is that no one is in a position to say, "No."

There is no one in a position to urge a slow approach, and to make sure that our creations do not turn against us... at least, not too horribly.

And turn they will.

It is in the nature of things.

Follow the link and read the article over and over until we understand the Brave New World that is being unleashed upon us.
http://phys.org/news/2013-09-sudden-global-ecology-interacting-robots.html

Recently, the global financial market experienced a series of computer glitches that abruptly brought operations to a halt. One reason for these "flash freezes" may be the sudden emergence of mobs of ultrafast robots, which trade on the global markets and operate at speeds beyond human capability, thus overwhelming the system. The appearance of this "ultrafast machine ecology" is documented in a new study published on September 11 in Nature Scientific Reports. 

The findings suggest that for time scales less than one second, the financial world makes a sudden transition into a cyber jungle inhabited by packs of aggressive trading algorithms. "These algorithms can operate so fast that humans are unable to participate in real time, and instead, an ultrafast ecology of robots rises up to take control," explains Neil Johnson, professor of physics in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami (UM), and corresponding author of the study.  

"Our findings show that, in this new world of ultrafast robot algorithms, the behavior of the market undergoes a fundamental and abrupt transition to another world where conventional market theories no longer apply," Johnson says...

Machines and algorithms can taken over and control our lives; they do not need to be what we consider intelligent:  they merely have to be a couple steps ahead of us!

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Recently, the global financial market experienced a series of computer glitches that abruptly brought operations to a halt. One reason for these "flash freezes" may be the sudden emergence of mobs of ultrafast robots, which trade on the global markets and operate at speeds beyond human capability, thus overwhelming the system. The appearance of this "ultrafast machine ecology" is documented in a new study published on September 11 in Nature Scientific Reports.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-09-sudden-global-ecology-interacting-robots.html#jCp

Recently, the global financial market experienced a series of computer glitches that abruptly brought operations to a halt. One reason for these "flash freezes" may be the sudden emergence of mobs of ultrafast robots, which trade on the global markets and operate at speeds beyond human capability, thus overwhelming the system. The appearance of this "ultrafast machine ecology" is documented in a new study published on September 11 in Nature Scientific Reports.

Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2013-09-sudden-global-ecology-interacting-robots.html#jCp

Skynet

SKYNET has taken over the Congress and the White House, The Federal Reserve, and is actively undermining the Euro.

The coup was to be on April 19, 2011 according to Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. No atomic warheads, though. April was when the House notified everyone the debt ceiling was to be held hostage:


Posted on Friday, April 15, 2011 2:07:33 PM by NormsRevenge

CHICAGO (AP) -- Failure by Congress to raise the U.S. debt limit "could plunge the world economy back into recession," President Barack Obama declared Friday, and he acknowledged that he must compromise on spending with Republicans who control the House to avoid such a crisis.
"I think he's absolutely right that it's not going to happen without some spending cuts," the president told The Associated Press in an interview in his hometown, agreeing with House Speaker John Boehner's assessment.
Obama urged swift action, saying he doesn't want the United States to get close to a deadline that would destabilize financial markets. He said he was confident Congress ultimately would raise the limit.

Why does SOLCOM not hear our prayers and lamentations?
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Skynet: Judgement Day

רשת שמיים

Skynet is just another analogy for what we knew was going to happen all along. Judgement Day in The Terminator is just another form of the structure of consciousness, a web of imaging and wording, that we amused ourselves with to flaunt our American belief of being somehow above and outside of the problems of the rest of the world; when Judgement Day comes, it comes for people in Darfur, it comes for people in Gaza, it comes for students in Jerusalem...but not to us.

Deaths in Columbine or Virginia Tech are mistakes. They could have been remedied by letting everyone on the campus have a gun. Or they could have been prevented by using Star Trek gizmos to scan for psychopaths. There is always a fix, no matter how insane it appears...sometimes even surpassing the madness of the original crime.

Skynet is now. Skynet has taken over the financial system and the Federal Reserve and the White House. Where is Solcom and why does he not help?

Reshet Shamaim

רשת שמיים This is Hebrew for Skynet. Israel Eyes Thinking Machines to Fight 'Doomsday' Missile Strikes (Updated) By Noah Shachtman January 22, 2008 5:15:00 PM http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/01/israel-thinking.html?cid=98177054#comment-98177054 Just how many times shall I get to use this Dr. Strangelove video?