MIT and Cambridge science men have determined that by 2010 we’ll be ‘immersed in a sea of miniature computers.’ It’s not clear exactly how this will happen, or even why, but there is a picture of a woman with a VR headset on and that’s good enough for me. Continuing our ‘ways our technology will track us down and kill us’ theme, the BBC article chronicles the story of a computer system that tracked the location of a user, using the best available method to reach them (e.g. cell phone, video conference, etc.,) which led to these choice quotes:
“You couldn’t escape from the system”, he told Go Digital. “It would find whatever communications that was available and call you.
“The computer was just trying to be helpful, but it turned into the nightmare scenario because there was no way of shutting the system down”.
[Thanks, Paul.]
