Borg-like cybots may patrol government networks


	Borg-like cybots may patrol government networks

spirithiker

2-25-2009 2:02 PM

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spirithiker says:

This is a lot scarier than Futureman's (http://i39.tinypic.com/24w7ed0.jpg) vision of the future.

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