Two items on the news today worried me. Neither on their own would be much to blog home about, but together, I think they spell doom for the human race. That's doom with a capital DOO.
One article was babbling on about how, fairly soon, there's going to be a robot in every house. The other was excitedly screeching about the new series of communication satellites to be launched by the army:
The British military is set to take one of its most significant steps into the digital age with the launch of the first Skynet 5 satellite.
"What's wrong with this?", you might ask, as if you cared.
Well, the problem is that all of this is starting to bear a scary similarity to a certain series of films. We have robots, and now we have a revolutionary new military thingy which is designed to unify all military communications, or something. Does this not ring a bell among our military commanders? They've even given it the same bloody name. Does "Skynet" sound familiar?
I speak, of course, of the Terminator series, in which Skynet wages war on mankind (which is forgiveable) and builds Arnold Schwarzenegger (which isn't).
We haven't got to the stage of having humaniform robots yet, so presumably when Skynet decides to launch its attack we will be treated to the prospect of our robotic vacuum cleaners suddenly attempting to suck our feet off, and our microwaves opening their doors and blasting us with molten baked beans.
Doomed, I tells ye.
Saturday, March 10, 2007
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