Regina Dugan : From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone

                                   

TED 2012

Regina Dugan : From mach-20 glider to hummingbird drone (transcript)

Summary

I thought that this was a very scary story, I don't know what other people think about, though. I think that a true story must purposely switch with another story that people will be moved also, and You'll probably realize it from Chris Anderson's questions.

"What's the payload it could be?"

Japan had been put a ban on development of airplanes for a few years after the world war Ⅱ. It's because Japan likely created great vehicles to start a new war and the world wanted to delay its development.

DARPA means the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. It is said to be independent of other military research and development, and to report directly to senior Department of Defense management.

( I think it is unlikely.）

The speaker explained that DARPA is a magical place where scientists and engineer challenge existing perspectives at the edges of science and under the most demanding of conditions.

( It'll mean that you have to devote your skills for the country to protect and earn because you are in the top position and you can use the national budget.)  

The currently developed technologies, for example, mach- 20 glider, hummingbird and nano-tech are literally great skills. However, all things can work together because they're connected by the Internet. This is not only better things but working really worse. Developing the technologies, businesses and government won't be able to separate with from military and money, even if there is a really deep sense of your responsibility.

Firstly, Superhero must clearly have a dream, it rids his fear but he doesn't say, “We've got to fly it first. Well, I don't think we ultimately know what it will be, right. We've got to fly it first”.

Words in this story

surpass /  excel, endure, keep out

sonicate /noun, verb/  sonication /noun/  sonically /adv/  subject (a biological sample) to ultrasonic vibration so as to fragment the cells, macromolecules, and membranes.

maneuverable / (especially of a craft or vessel) able to be maneuvered easily while in motion.

inconceivable /adj/ not capable of being imagined or grasped mentally. unbelievable, mysterious, strange