Vernon Gaunt
06-19-2007, 09:25 AM
Hokum Magazine.
Eyeborgs! A suitable case for treatment!
It is with deep scepticism that I gave this film set a viewing, you know me! Don?t you? If you can raise a smile, just a little one then it?s been worthwhile.
In this instance is it worth smiling about?
I read somewhere that Eyeborgs seemed to be a cross between 24, Terminator, and Robocop! And who am I to disagree as the film is still in the making. The plot is as old as the hills though. Terrorists, murder, revenge, assassination! etc. Mind the terrorists of today don?t go around with lighted candles rolling large barrels of gunpowder and singing anti monarchy songs. Perhaps they should have tee shirts with ?I am a Terrorist? written on just to give us a chance!
I watched this morning on the TV as a bunch of so called ?Suicide bombers? paraded in front of some fundamentalist leader awaiting the call when they could attach explosives to themselves and create havoc amongst some populated area somewhere. All for the promise of a heaven with so many virgins waiting for them. You mean they can?t find one in the here and now!
I also read that global warming could be attributed to the number of surveillance cameras in operation currently churning out disc after disc of mindless stuff just waiting for that one chance to catch a criminal in the act or a driver crossing the line when it comes to speeding. They even have them in some towns to film car drivers that stray into the bus lane, then ?whack? a fine!
The thing is, whatever inventions and innovations created for the benefit of mankind criminals or terrorists will find a way to utilise it for their own means. Let?s face it you surf the web and find recipes for strawberry jam and bomb making. Within the click of a button, mind blowing!
Until, ultimately, one country decides to develop a nuclear plant for uranium enrichment. They can be doing it for one reason, and one reason only! They want a bomb as well! Now hold on here, why shouldn?t they have this stuff. Loads of people already do. Seems a little one sided. ?We?re using it as a deterrent!? I hear you say, well perhaps they want a deterrent as well. They have cars and TV?s just like the rest of us, it just took a little longer getting them that?s all.
So Eyeborgs is surveillance taken to extremes. Let?s watch the population and ensure they don?t break the law and if we do dissect it, shoot it, talk to it, prevent it on the spot, what a good idea! Trouble is robots are supposed to have a prime objective and that is to preserve and protect mankind, working tirelessly for them without fear or favour. Oh yeah until the crooks find a way of benefiting mankind in a different way!
Now just think on this. All that read this are doing so from the luxury of your own home, (if you?re at work doing it, shame on you! Get back to the stuff your employers pay you for). Most modern PC?s are made in either the USA or China! Not all but most.
Conspiracy theory number one! Imagine that every PC has a device installed that could be detonated at one given time. The case, a small component or for that matter a Sony rechargeable battery! (sorry, just had to slip that one in) You?re all linked to the web and all receive junk mail and perhaps experienced the occasional virus. It?d be quite simple to send out some common pulse and CABOOM! There goes the developed World as we know it.
Conspiracy theory, number two! That little hole on your laptop is it really a microphone or could it be a surveillance device that not only monitors your speech at home whilst you?re logged in but also watches you.
Creepy or what!
I have a suggestion. It should be compulsory for every one to carry their own form of camera and recording device just to prove you were somewhere else when there is a case of mistaken identity. To record your every movement would be an excellent idea and would always ensure you behaved. Psst you can take them off at night!
In London some police are fitted with cameras on their helmets so as to record evidence that may be used against you if you step out of line. Now these are humans not robots but we have the technology!
If you don?t believe me just wander into any store and check it out. Thousands of pounds worth of surveillance over the pic-and ?mix counter ensuring you don?t nick your favourite soft centre!
Eyeborgs isn?t science fiction it?s science fact! Or soon will be.
In the UK it?s estimated that there are 4,000,000 cameras, In London 400,000, this equates to one camera to every fourteen people. Maybe sometime soon you?ll have your own little Eyeborg wandering around your property checking up on the bad guys! Or is that checking up in the good guys!
?Big Brother is watching you!?----------------- But just how closely?
Good luck with this film AP, we?ll be watching you!
How closely?
Oh! you'd be suprised!
I M A Mountebank
Eyeborgs! A suitable case for treatment!
It is with deep scepticism that I gave this film set a viewing, you know me! Don?t you? If you can raise a smile, just a little one then it?s been worthwhile.
In this instance is it worth smiling about?
I read somewhere that Eyeborgs seemed to be a cross between 24, Terminator, and Robocop! And who am I to disagree as the film is still in the making. The plot is as old as the hills though. Terrorists, murder, revenge, assassination! etc. Mind the terrorists of today don?t go around with lighted candles rolling large barrels of gunpowder and singing anti monarchy songs. Perhaps they should have tee shirts with ?I am a Terrorist? written on just to give us a chance!
I watched this morning on the TV as a bunch of so called ?Suicide bombers? paraded in front of some fundamentalist leader awaiting the call when they could attach explosives to themselves and create havoc amongst some populated area somewhere. All for the promise of a heaven with so many virgins waiting for them. You mean they can?t find one in the here and now!
I also read that global warming could be attributed to the number of surveillance cameras in operation currently churning out disc after disc of mindless stuff just waiting for that one chance to catch a criminal in the act or a driver crossing the line when it comes to speeding. They even have them in some towns to film car drivers that stray into the bus lane, then ?whack? a fine!
The thing is, whatever inventions and innovations created for the benefit of mankind criminals or terrorists will find a way to utilise it for their own means. Let?s face it you surf the web and find recipes for strawberry jam and bomb making. Within the click of a button, mind blowing!
Until, ultimately, one country decides to develop a nuclear plant for uranium enrichment. They can be doing it for one reason, and one reason only! They want a bomb as well! Now hold on here, why shouldn?t they have this stuff. Loads of people already do. Seems a little one sided. ?We?re using it as a deterrent!? I hear you say, well perhaps they want a deterrent as well. They have cars and TV?s just like the rest of us, it just took a little longer getting them that?s all.
So Eyeborgs is surveillance taken to extremes. Let?s watch the population and ensure they don?t break the law and if we do dissect it, shoot it, talk to it, prevent it on the spot, what a good idea! Trouble is robots are supposed to have a prime objective and that is to preserve and protect mankind, working tirelessly for them without fear or favour. Oh yeah until the crooks find a way of benefiting mankind in a different way!
Now just think on this. All that read this are doing so from the luxury of your own home, (if you?re at work doing it, shame on you! Get back to the stuff your employers pay you for). Most modern PC?s are made in either the USA or China! Not all but most.
Conspiracy theory number one! Imagine that every PC has a device installed that could be detonated at one given time. The case, a small component or for that matter a Sony rechargeable battery! (sorry, just had to slip that one in) You?re all linked to the web and all receive junk mail and perhaps experienced the occasional virus. It?d be quite simple to send out some common pulse and CABOOM! There goes the developed World as we know it.
Conspiracy theory, number two! That little hole on your laptop is it really a microphone or could it be a surveillance device that not only monitors your speech at home whilst you?re logged in but also watches you.
Creepy or what!
I have a suggestion. It should be compulsory for every one to carry their own form of camera and recording device just to prove you were somewhere else when there is a case of mistaken identity. To record your every movement would be an excellent idea and would always ensure you behaved. Psst you can take them off at night!
In London some police are fitted with cameras on their helmets so as to record evidence that may be used against you if you step out of line. Now these are humans not robots but we have the technology!
If you don?t believe me just wander into any store and check it out. Thousands of pounds worth of surveillance over the pic-and ?mix counter ensuring you don?t nick your favourite soft centre!
Eyeborgs isn?t science fiction it?s science fact! Or soon will be.
In the UK it?s estimated that there are 4,000,000 cameras, In London 400,000, this equates to one camera to every fourteen people. Maybe sometime soon you?ll have your own little Eyeborg wandering around your property checking up on the bad guys! Or is that checking up in the good guys!
?Big Brother is watching you!?----------------- But just how closely?
Good luck with this film AP, we?ll be watching you!
How closely?
Oh! you'd be suprised!
I M A Mountebank