Comments on: Spying bugs take wing http://futurismic.com/2007/07/19/spying-bugs-take-wing/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Sat, 19 May 2012 23:03:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: moa http://futurismic.com/2007/07/19/spying-bugs-take-wing/comment-page-1/#comment-826 moa Sun, 22 Jul 2007 16:17:18 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2007/07/19/spying-bugs-take-wing/#comment-826 I just want to know what happens when you accidentally swallow one when riding your bike. tiny explosion? I just want to know what happens when you accidentally swallow one when riding your bike. tiny explosion?

]]> By: AST http://futurismic.com/2007/07/19/spying-bugs-take-wing/comment-page-1/#comment-820 AST Sat, 21 Jul 2007 16:04:21 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2007/07/19/spying-bugs-take-wing/#comment-820 Forget Privacy. We've already crippled ourselves with so many silly worries about privacy. Now this one will make that a moot issue. Expect huge sales of these puppies to paparazzi. Personally, while I'd find them an annoyance, they probably will be a bonanza for anti-terrorism and destroying violent crime. Expect to find other uses, like industrial espionage, following suspected spouses, along with others nobody imagines yet. Forget Privacy. We’ve already crippled ourselves with so many silly worries about privacy. Now this one will make that a moot issue. Expect huge sales of these puppies to paparazzi. Personally, while I’d find them an annoyance, they probably will be a bonanza for anti-terrorism and destroying violent crime.

Expect to find other uses, like industrial espionage, following suspected spouses, along with others nobody imagines yet.

]]> By: Dagon http://futurismic.com/2007/07/19/spying-bugs-take-wing/comment-page-1/#comment-802 Dagon Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:15:54 +0000 http://futurismic.com/2007/07/19/spying-bugs-take-wing/#comment-802 Right now if I show this to a mundane person (tm), i.e. an average citizen, that person will shrug in just about the same way as he or she would if I shower him or her the first integrated circuit somewhere in, say 1965. "it'll never amount to anything" they'll claim reflexively. Then I'd love to show them a 3D video of a cyberswarm of several ten thousand Right now if I show this to a mundane person ™, i.e. an average citizen, that person will shrug in just about the same way as he or she would if I shower him or her the first integrated circuit somewhere in, say 1965.

“it’ll never amount to anything” they’ll claim reflexively.

Then I’d love to show them a 3D video of a cyberswarm of several ten thousand

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