Posthuman Blues

Pentagon Plans God-like Internet

"Vint Cerf, one of the fathers of the Internet and a Pentagon consultant on the war net, said, 'I want to make sure what we realize is vision and not hallucination. This is sort of like Star Wars, where the policy was, 'Let's go out and build this system,' and technology lagged far behind. There's nothing wrong with having ambitious goals. You just need to temper them with physics and reality.'"

A Pentagon-controlled "god-like" Internet sounds disquietingly like the omniscient "Skynet" defense system from "Terminator 2."

Wait a second -- there's a realistic chance Ah-nold -- who depicted a Skynet-contrived cyborg bent on exterminating humanity -- might be the next US president. Meanwhile, analysts are predicting possible nuclear attacks on American soil . . . I'm not sure I like where this is going.