China demonstrated a new microwave system that can provide electricity to flying drones.

The ability to load drone batteries while the drone is airborne raises its capacity to the next level. This microwave beam. It can be mounted on ships, ground vehicles, aircraft, other drones, and atmospheric satellites. And that means this device can give. An extremely long-term flight time, even for small drones. This kind. Of the microwave beam. It can also protect high-flying atmospheric satellites against incoming missiles. The same system. 

It can also generate electricity. To other portable devices. And it can also make. It is possible to send drone swarms into the other planet’s atmosphere. The probe. This kind of system can deliver energy and communicate with drones that operate in Venus’s atmosphere. The drone swarm can also act as a flying printer. 

This kind of remote system can make things. That we see in the movies like “Blade Runner” in reality. There is a possibility that in the future, cities will have. The radio-wave or microwave-based systems that pump energy into flying cars. The term flying car. It means the low-cost flying machines that can transport people or cargo. The problem is that those “flying cars” or big quadcopters can also carry people to roofs. Or they can also equipped with machine guns. 

Flying car from the movie “Blade Runner.” 

These types of power systems. It can also detect and terminate drones that seem dangerous. The fact is that. Drones are cheap and dangerous tools. In any hands. Governments, as well as terrorists and regular criminals, can use those tools in multiple ways. 

They can attack competitors and authorities. They can use those tools for searching for weaknesses. And things. They want to steal from warehouses and other places. They want to commit burglaries. And they can use drones to carry guns and drugs from ships to coasts. And of course, those things can also be transported to the prisons. This means that drones are a big opportunity. And they are big threats. The drone can search for people on the streets. This ability can break civil rights. But it can also save lives. 

Drone swarms can also search for people in cases. Like missing person incidents. Those systems can also operate in city areas. And use the AI. For detecting people. Missing in city areas. In the city area or in the wet forest, dogs are unable to operate. In city areas. It is also a possibility that some pedophiles or other bad people call those missing children and play the helper. 

https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-microwave-beam-recharges-drones

From ultra-fast quantum materials to the historical computer comeback

“Scientists have discovered that superconductivity can be controlled by manipulating a material’s surrounding environment, offering a new way to influence how electrons behave. The finding challenges conventional assumptions and hints at unexplored mechanisms. Behind this elusive phenomenon. Credit: SciTechDaily.com” (ScitechDaily, This Strange Material Can Turn Superconductivity on and off Like a Switch)

The new material can switch superconductivity on and off. That makes it an ideal material for superconducting components. Like switches and gates. “A logic gate is a device that performs a Boolean function, a logical operation performed on one or more binary inputs that produces a single binary output. Depending on the context, the term may refer to an ideal logic gate, one that has, for instance, zero rise time and unlimited fan-out, or it may refer to a non-ideal physical device (see ideal and real op-amps for comparison). (Wikipedia, Logic gate) 

Superconductivity. It is important for the table-sized quantum computer. Superconductivity means that the resistance cannot disturb signals that travel in the wires. That is one of the requirements for the electric quantum computer. It can work as it should. 

The new material. That can switch between superconducting. And resistive states can make. The new. Ultra-fast binary computers. And table-sized quantum computers. Closer to reality. The ability to switch the superconducting state off and on makes it possible to create super-fast gates and switches. Into. The superconducting systems. 

This means that. In a low-voltage system. The wire that can switch the superconductor off and on. Can. Itself acts as a switch or gate. In that version, the transistors are turned into superconducting. And. The ability to switch the superconducting on and off limits the possibility that electricity jumps over the switch. 

How fast is this action?  It depends on how fast the system can switch to superconductivity. And out of it. This ability. Makes it possible to create more effective computers that use less electricity. 

“Development of the mechanical computer.” (Interesting Engineering)

Mechanical computer. 

Mechanical computers that store information in spring systems are one version of things that can make a comeback from the past. The spring computer, or mechanical computers, are immune to things like EMP pulses. So, mechanical computers can operate in the high-power EM fields. Those systems can make it possible. For the electronic computer to call the data for the new operating system, if the old one is corrupted. 

The system can drive things like diesel-engine operating robot cars out of the dangerous EM area and then call the dataset for fixing damaged programs. The mechanical computer can store data in many ways in springs. The spring pairs can store information like a binary computer. The first spring means zero, and the second one means one. Or. The spring can push and pull the switch into position. There is position one. Is zero, and position two is one. 

The U.S. researchers made. A fully mechanical computer that doesn’t need any kind of electricity. This kind of mechanical computer can operate mechanical systems. And this is one of the things. That can bring new ideas for robotics. The system can transform mechanical movements into electricity by pushing or switching the switch between on/off positions. The “on” position means one. And the off position means zero. This means that a computer is not always an ultra-fast system. 

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/battery-free-computer-using-mechanical-springs

https://scitechdaily.com/this-strange-material-can-turn-superconductivity-on-and-off-like-a-switch/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_gate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switch

The HAA (High Altitude Airship). As an atmospheric satellite.

Sceye's stratospheric airship.(Interesting Engineering)

The HAA (High Altitude Airship) can act as an atmospheric satellite. High-flying solar-powered airship could operate for over 12 hours. Or, the 12 hours is the time that those airships take to reach. But those tests are prepared to create systems that can operate for years. Those airships can cruise at a very high altitude. And collect information that their operators require. The value of those airships is realized in NATO. 

The airship that flies at a very high altitude can carry sensors, such as radars and cameras, that may help civil and military actors detect drone swarms, aircraft, and other objects, including wildfires. 

Those systems can observe and search for humans and vehicles. For both civil and military purposes. In law enforcement and intelligence work, the airship can use laser microphones. That allows them to hear things from inside the building. 

Many people think that a high-flying airship, which operates at the edge of space, is a good target for missiles. The fact is that those airships can be equipped with similar active protection systems. As tanks. Those systems can shoot bullets or laser beams at incoming missiles. The airship can also use a plasma stealth system. That system can cover the airship using plasma. And that makes those systems very hard to detect. The electric motor’s IR signature is very low. 

Kelluu is Finnish design. (Image: Kelluu corporation)

The airship can also deliver drone swarms to the area where it patrols. Those drones can carry sensors, like microphones, cameras, hydrophones, and sonar systems. Those systems can operate as an acoustic weapon.  As well as. They can also operate as kamikaze drones. Airship can drop torpedoes and underwater drones as well as regular quadcopters and other types of drones. 

The remote control. Or autonomous airship. It can also carry a space rocket to the edge of the atmosphere. The rocket. That has wings could be dropped to glide, and then the rocket ignites its engine. 

There might be many sizes of those atmospheric satellites. Some of them can be rugby-ball size. Some might be torpedo-size, and some of them could be the large-size zeppelins. There is a possibility of connecting the satellite with mylar balloons, filled with hydrogen. Those unmanned systems. Don’t need similar safety standards as manned systems. The air or oxygen. It must only be removed from the balloon. Then, a balloon can raise a satellite that can have the same missions as orbital systems. 

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/new-solar-powered-airship-stays-airborne-for-12-days-at-52000-ft-altitude-in-test

https://kelluu.com/news/kelluu-raises-15mn-series-a-to-build-europes-persistent-aerial-intelligence-layer-and-strengthen-natos-surveillance-capabilities

AI-driven drones are coming.

R&D cycle in the drone ecosystem is faster than anyone believed. New and powerful microchips give flexibility. And the ability to run complex software. The complex software. It allows drones. To do complex things autonomously. The cloud-based system architecture is the thing. That allows drones. To share their calculation capacity and information over the entire drone swarm. This means that all drones can get the same information. The new drones can take commands. These are given. By using the spoken natural language. 

And that makes it easier to give commands to drones. Those drones can recognize their targets from images. And the flexible architecture makes it possible. Those operators. They can show targets on the screen. Drones can navigate to the target using camera images. Intelligent inertial. Or signals from other drones. Those drones can have a brain-mimicking way. To solve problems. In the future, those drones could also use cloned neurons in their microchips. 

Autonomous drone swarms can operate in a war zone. Or in the other planet’s atmosphere. They can search for people. And they can guide rescue teams. High-precision drones can build houses. But the same systems can also be used as ultra-advanced weapon systems. Drones can send information to the base. And when their battery runs empty. Those drones can attack enemies. The drone swarms can operate in the. Air or underwater. In some scenarios, places like the Kremlin can have drone defense. If there is a riot against people like Putin. They send those drones to eliminate that riot. And these types of visions make drones scary. 

The camera system can use a system called DSMAC. Digital Scene-matching area correlation. The navigation system uses aerial photos. Taken about its route. Then the AI compares the images the camera sends. That is stored in the memory of those drones. When those images are similar, the drone is on the right route. The system can use the same camera for navigation and target recognition. 

Advanced AI is the tool that makes drones. Avoid the defense. Or. Otherwise, the system allows drones to attack other drones. This makes those systems very flexible. 

The DNA-based mass memories are excellent tools for drone control. Those memories are high-capacity, low-voltage tools that can be used as drone control. The DNA-controlled nanomachines can act as artificial neurons. Those systems can control all types of drones. From pocket-sized quadcopters. To full-size robot combat aircraft. 

https://interestingengineering.com/military/drones-no-gps-ai-navigation

https://www.neuromorphiccore.ai/drones-that-listen-think-and-conserve-with-brain-like-precision/

https://scitechdaily.com/dna-meets-electronics-scientists-create-ultra-low-power-memory-breakthrough/

https://www.unikie.com/service/autonomous-drone-swarms/

Why do people at the bottom want change more than people at the top?

Are futurologists right, or left-wing people? I mean politically. The main problem with ideology is this. The people at the top of the system are often more resistant to change than those at the bottom of society. The reason for that resistance is that those people are not working with the same thing as their henchmen. So, at the top of the organization, change is seen as a cost. They often think that it’s easier to continue with old methods. The new technology involves some risk. And because business is driven by money, not innovation, the old-fashioned technology is still used. Things. Like combustion engines, which are tools that are over 150 years old. 

This is why. The people. Those who pay lots of taxes. They are against change. The people who are working on the floor level want new machines. They are more open to new ideas than people at the top of the system. People think that this is the entire truth. But then. We can go back to the Soviet Union. The advanced forces took command in that nation in 1917. 

Then, for some reason, the most advanced state was left far behind the Western world. And the reason was again the same. People who ruled the state resist the change. In the 1970s, the Soviet Union was the leading state in robotics. They send Lunahod moon rovers to the moon. They tried to send a similar rover to Mars. At the same time. The Soviets tested systems that they could use on the battlefield. The Lunahod could act as a prototype for robot tanks. But. The lack of imagination. Caused those programs to be terminated. 

Once, the Polish Sci-Fi writer Stanislaw Lem introduced the idea of drone swarms in his novel “The Invincible”. The Soviets and other Warsaw Pact countries didn’t notice that idea. The idea of drone attacks is also introduced in some crime novels. In the novel The Brotherhood of the Rose. The novelist David Morrell made the main character eliminate his victim by using a remote-control aircraft. Those novels written in the 1960s and 1980’s. 

But still today, those killer drones came as a surprise on the Ukrainian front. We are known. Things like remotely controlled miniature hobby planes. For a very long time. Anyone can buy one of them from a shop. And anyone can connect a dynamite, a lighter gas bottle, and a remote launcher to them. But we are not prepared for those things. 

Then. Those innovations were lost. This caused a situation. That Western drove past the Soviets. The bureaucracy caused. Some innovations were old when the first prototypes came out from the production line. 

This is the main problem. All over the field. When we try to create fuels and systems that can make us independent from oil. There are only malfunctions and money loss. In those systems. We can say that hydrogen is a suitable fuel for turbine plants. But if we think that we should only make the system. This makes our vehicles independent of oil. We could use alcohol. Or the shaper saying ethanol as fuel. Ethanol is a good fuel, but it is a hydrocarbon. 

Lunahod 1

All hydrocarbons cause carbon emissions. Hydrogen is easy to produce. By using electrolysis. But electrolysis requires electricity. And the way. How electricity is made. Determines how environmentally friendly that fuel is. When we think. About things like solar panels, we see how ineffective they can be. The main problem is that those solar panels do not use any fuel. The effect of the solar panel can be boosted by using the turbogenerators. In those systems, the sunlight. It rises. The temperature in the water circuit. And this water or some other liquid will be sent through the turbine. This system can be used. As a cooling system with solar panels. This kind of hybrid system can increase the system’s power. 

Another thing. That could replace oil in engines is hydrogen peroxide or sulphuric acid. The system must only drive water in the cylinder chamber. And then inject peroxide or sulphuric acid into the cylinder. That means it's possible. The diesel engine can be turned. Into a steam engine that doesn’t require oil-based fuels. Production of sulphuric acid and peroxide requires a chemical factory. And at least the last one is very poisonous and corrosive. 

But the main problem is that. People still want to use so-called trusted methods. Wind energy can kill birds. Solar panels are not effective, and geothermal energy destroys roads. At the same time. Things like oil drills do not cause the fall of Earth's surface. Things like data centers are using too much electricity. But the thing called an ice rink doesn’t use electricity for nothing. The problem is that. When people have a negative attitude toward something new. That causes a situation. That people see only the negative. Things from those ideas. When we think that there is something wrong with the world today. We must realize that our economic solutions. Like full employment. They are from somewhere in the Roman Empire or Ancient Greece before the Roman Empire. 

We must accept that in the future. We cannot offer workplaces to all people. And people are not working traditionally. The problem with change is that. Modern new machines and AI. Make their work better and without breaks. Those systems are far more effective than human workers. Firms that use technology without prejudice are more effective than firms that don’t accept those things. Humans cannot compete with robots in simple mechanical work. Humans are more creative than AI. But in mechanical work, like serial production. Robots beat humans. Human operators can make the first object that comes out of the production line. But at the same time, they educate the AI. And AI and robots. Make the next objects in the series without humans. 

Advancing is not always positive. When we start to use new machines, we lose something. When we developed the Net, we lost something very important. We lost our physical community. Medieval people worked together. They met each other every day. They sing and work together. But there is also a cost for that community. Those communities were very intolerant of foreigners. Also, people who were different than others were sometimes even killed. So we must realize that. When we nostalize the past, we forget that everything was not good in those “good old times”. When we think that people who work in their homes are slaves of the net. And then we can call them to the office, and say that they are happier there, we must ask two more questions. 

Are we social in those offices, or are we sitting in a box, where there are no windows at all? Do we really talk? To each other? Maybe we do those things. But when we desire the way that people must come to the office, because they are happier that way, we must ask one thing: Do we underestimate our henchmen? Can we really think that our henchmen are happier in office, even if we are? When we sit in the office, we must ask: Are we really?  Making work that the employer pays for? Entire day? If our boss orders six work performances for the day, is it enough that we complete those works? And then the day is over. Or should we sit on our work computer for the rest of the day, and read some cartoons? The question is always: When we go to work, what do we actually do during the entire day? 

China brings. New innovations to markets in a very short timeline. And that means we can lose the technology race to the East. China can be far less bureaucratic. Than Western nations, when they want. They can make colossal space stations. And create AI-controlled drones. They create robot-operated, fully automated factories. And there is no problem with unemployment. We all want to resist things like AI-controlled combat robots. But if somebody. Brings them to the battlefield. That gives superiority to that operator. This is the reason why we are in the race. Or in the same wheel with AI and quantum development. 

Quantum systems and AI-controlled, synchronized morphing neural networks are tools that can make binary encryption ineffective. The problem is that if some hostile actor reaches quantum superiority. That actor can dominate the world. Quantum supremacy. Makes it possible to create cyber attacks that can paralyze an entire nation. A cyberattack that destroys civil and military databases can turn the entire country into a chaotic situation. What if we lost all our computers? 

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-jobs-automation-expert

https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/34-emerging-technologies-that-will-change-the-world/54326/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brotherhood_of_the_Rose

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invincible

Orbital data centers and AI-driven probes.

“StarCloud Launches the First Orbital AI Data Centers

In early November 2025, StarCloud, a Washington-based startup focused on space technology, successfully launched a satellite into low Earth orbit carrying a high-performance Nvidia H100 GPU. This GPU is one hundred times more powerful than any chip previously used in space.” (Welp Magazine, StarCloud Orbital Data Centers: The Biggest AI Breakthrough in Space)

Orbital data centers (ODC) are an interesting yet expensive concept. Those data centers are things that can answer. The data center’s huge energy problem. Those orbital data centers can use satellite swarms that communicate with each other using cloud-based architecture. Each of those satellites uses solar panels for energy supply. The same technology is used in drone swarms. And swarms of small probes that can someday research our solar system. The cloud-based architecture and swarm technology. 

Guarantees that the entity can operate even if one brick or satellite loses its control. There are huge problems. That this kind of plan faces. The orbital data centers require new satellites. All the time. When new microchips are coming. To marketing. But. On the other hand, the calculation power of those satellite swarms is easy. To enhance. By launching more data satellites into the swarm. That means those systems are easy.  But expensive to complete. 

The data satellite can be like all other satellites. Those satellites form the bricks of the entity. Called a cloud-based data center. When a satellite turns old. It just sends information that is stored in it to the satellite that replaces it. And then that satellite can be returned to Earth by using parachutes to the yard of the factory. This is the way. On how technology, like microcircuits, can be recycled. 

The ODCs, orbital data centers, are not impossible. They are made of existing technology. The main problem is financing. There is also a possibility. That some third-party nation tries to damage those data centers. 

“Artist's concept illustration of the Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter, a cancelled unmanned NASA exploration craft.” (Wikipedia, Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter)

But those orbital data centers. This can be the pilot experiment, which opens the path. To the entire solar system. If we think that we send probes. And make bases on Mars and beyond, we need technology that solves communication problems. The AI-driven robots. Can make repairs to the nuclear-powered probes. And. They can make the bases for crews. But those systems require. 

A data-center-sized computing capacity. The AI-controlled probe must have models for all kinds of situations. Here we must notice that all the probes. In some models, the main probe can travel through the solar system and drop the sub-probes to the planets. This model is the lightweight version of the study project called Daedalus. 

The attempt to make a model of an interstellar probe that should research Alpha Centauri and some other solar systems. The Daedalus itself could travel past the targeted solar system. And launch the sub-probes that enter the solar system. The Daedalus requires stable bases all around the solar system. 

That I listed. In this text, remain at the conceptual level. The JIMO (Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter) was a study project that planned to send a probe to Jupiter in 2015. But that probe was never completed. The JIMO remains. As the name of the AI-controlled Jupiter-orbiters study project. The real name for those futuristic probes. Is. Some kind of ancient god. The probes that will travel to the outer solar system must be larger and more versatile than modern probes. They must have a very powerful computer system that can operate independently in the outer solar system. 

“Daedalus spacecraft concept” (Wikipedia, Project Daedalus)

This means those systems must be very independent. In visions, the system that controls JIMO, SIMO, NIMO (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune icy moon orbiters).  And the Kuiper belt probes are driven by AI that is similar to ChatGPT. A radio signal takes hours to travel to those probes. So they must operate very independently. Those probes would be larger than the probes that NASA sends to Mars. They can operate nuclear-powered vehicles. Those operate on the surface of those icy moons. 

The drone swarms could sink through the ice. They can use lasers or microwaves to travel through the icy shell. Or the probe can use high-power microwaves or lasers to remove ice and send probes to the icy oceans of Jupiter’s Europa and Saturn’s Enceladus moons. Those drone swarms can also operate. In the atmosphere of the gas giants. Or in the atmosphere of Saturn’s Titan moon. Those large probes use nuclear-powered systems. That guarantees the very long-term operational time. Their mission will be to map the far side of the solar system. But also test the AI that can operate independently in surprising situations. 

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/03/orbital-data-centers-part-1-theres-no-way-this-is-economically-viable-right/

https://globalcarbonfund.com/carbon-news/orbital-data-center-guide-everything-you-need-to-know-about-this-next-gen-space-computing-technology/

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/4ig-weighs-100m-investment-into-axiom-space-as-part-of-orbital-data-center-plan/

https://www.odchq.com/

https://satnews.com/2026/03/17/the-rise-of-the-orbital-data-center-solving-the-space-data-bottleneck/

https://www.starcloud.com/

https://welpmagazine.com/starcloud-orbital-data-centers-ai-in-space/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter_Icy_Moons_Orbiter

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Daedalus