Possibly a new air traffic control system in the works?
(www.reuters.com)
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The united states air traffic control grid is so old and so archaic the cost of upgrading would be 100's of billions.
It is so old they still use vacuum tubes.
Hmm, I wonder if there will be wonder when it happens then..
They've talked about upgrading it for decades. The cost and the transition and retraining involved is incredible.
Make no mistake, there have been upgrades but they are expensive and small.
One such upgrade happened early 2000ish. The big visible change was the ATC could change the background color of the radar from black to dark blue.
I trust you know the industry better. I am suspecting and speculating, madly some might say, but the fact that this would be such a huge feat, solidifies my thinking. I think that somehow they will have a seperate power structure, off the main grid and probably underground and I also think that humans will be eliminated from necessity in this and all normally human intelligent areas. AI governance. Recently they've been discussing epistemic industries: https://scored.co/c/Conspiracies/p/19A1QLqDYP/artificial-epistemic-authorities/c
I think many of the hurdles involve how intricately humans are involved in the air traffic grid at all levels.
AI is a product but moving planes around is wildly complicated. Getting pilots to obey you can be a crap shoot.
These guys will get in arguments. The pilot not wanting to deviate or slow down and the controller trying to arrange his grid. If one pilot doesn't obey it can create danger.
That makes it EMP proof.
I wonder if they are actively building some private, off the grid type infastructure, hmm 🤔
They might build an AI program for the task, but I seriously doubt it will be used without human oversight. Tube radios are in a way off grid if you have an isolated power supply
I do think they will have to make a new, seperate, secluded grid (probably underground), and it'll be a wonder: https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2025/01/27/809772.htm