The annual Cinniapolis Technology Expo promised another peek into the future this year with interactive demonstrations accompanied by informative inventor presentations. The 2022 expo agenda attracted inventors from all over the globe to Cinniapolis. There were several highlights including two items intended to make everyday life more practical, such as the self cleaning throw rug or the auto-refilling water bottle. But, a handful of ambitious projects aimed to make the world safer and its communities smarter.

The first notable global improvement project treated attendees to a drone fleet equipped with colorful lasers. EyeSky, a group of international Cinni State scholars, presented their project Smart Sky, a proposed network of smart drones capturing real-time atmospheric data in order to identify potential severe storms by coloring the clouds. While weather forecasting has progressed greatly over the past decade, EyeSky intends to perfect it. As the old saying goes, “The weatherman is right twice a day, sunrise and sunset.” With that in mind, EyeSky intends to give weather forecasters everywhere an additional tool with their drone fleet.

The drones were launched to a blend of oooo’s, ah’s, and applause. As they took flight on a perfectly puffy cloudy day, the drones organized into a V-formation, like a flock of migrating geese. Then, as quickly as they formed the V, separate drones began darting and diving in different directions. Their purpose was to gather real-time data points including humidity levels, barometric pressure, dew points, wind speed, and air temperatures to assign a color to the cloud cluster. Since yesterday was a calm weather day, the clouds did not receive a color, even though this demonstration was most impressive. EyeSky then played a video for attendees taken last Spring demonstrating how quickly and effectively the drones mapped an incoming thunderstorm. The drones repeated the V-formation followed by individual drones separating from and returning to formation. Then, they lit up the thunderhead cloud cells with red lasers. And, just like that, the clouds had been shaded red to alert nearby regions to an approaching fast-moving thunderstorm. In contrast, CNPS-TV’s own lead meteorologist, Fran Dimple, had forecasted a 50% chance of showers that left some citizens unprepared for the gusty winds and downpours from that red cloud. Going forward, perhaps EyeSky can be a useful service when severe weather is on the horizon.

A second project prioritizing global safety also caught the eyes of the Cinniapolis Chorus staff, figuratively and literally. The Chorus had previously reported on Dr. Miles Sevenson’s exploits as the Director of Washington Labs at Cinni State. His team of quantum physicists attempted to develop smart glasses but failed to gain a foothold in the marketplace. The team deduced demand for the glasses were low because they were just moving information available on smartphones to a pair of glasses. In the words of Dr. Sevenson, “We didn’t provide a solution to a problem. We just changed the delivery of a previously solved problem. Now, we have solved a problem or potentially all the problems.”

According to Dr. Sevenson, the world is in crisis and bears the risk of repeating failures of past behaviors, policies, and actions. His task, to save the world. His solution, those same smart glasses. “We re-calibrated our mission. Originally, our goal was to simplify shopping and traveling. Now, the goal is to rid the world of history repeating itself,” he said. His team plans to do that with their secretive quantum computer informing world citizens how to behave through suggested actions displayed on their smart glasses. According to Dr. Sevenson, the quantum computer is fed visuals from the glasses, it then can marry all data points available from the past to the current data points and give the user advice in real-time on behavior or action to keep the world moving forward. “Earth rotates in a repetitive circle and is predictable. Humanity also rotates in a circle and is predictable, for a super computer,” said Dr. Sevenson.

Naturally, this device was the top attraction from this year’s expo. Attendees waited hours to try on and operate the smart glasses. One brave Chorus reporter waited out the lines. When it was his turn, he placed the glasses on his face, “It knows my name, profession, age, weight, race, gender, yikes,” he said, “It’s telling me go about my day as normal.” Small sacrifice to make to save the world. He took a few paces towards the heavy private security detail with Dr. Sevenson, “Oh whoa, it’s telling me approach with caution and empathy,” he took another, more aggressive step,”Wow, it’s flashing STOP IMMEDIATELY in bold red letters,” he said. When asked how not approaching security in this instance saves the world, Dr. Sevenson said, “Right here, right now, the quantum computer scans all the data inputs ranging from censuses to smart phones to email accounts to social media posts, or any service or database with a digital footprint and can apply that present information to historical data points to inform the user a proper action to stop history from repeating itself. Imagine world leaders utilizing this technology to prevent war, famines, or any other human catastrophe. The possibilities are endless.”

Our curious reporter followed the directions to stop approaching security. Will that stop the next tyrannical dictator? Only time will tell. But, the crowds ate up Dr. Sevenson’s proclamation about everyone’s capability to save the world. They’ll just have to get fitted for glasses first before tying on their cape.