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Thursday, September 30, 2010

Stuxnet

I have been reading about Stuxnet, the highly sophisticated computer worm that some people think was built to attack Iran's Bushehr nuclear reactor. It is so complex that analysts believe the resources of some nation-state are behind it.

Bear with me.
I have a feeling, a presentiment of the future.
This type of development is Skynet of the Terminator series; this is the viral infection of Resident Evil: all of the artistic attempts to portray the end-of-time in the clash between man and machine will come down to nationalistic militarism designed at attacking other machines. The more succesful it is, the more it will grow and develop.
The very first efforts at quantum computing will be weapons designed to remove our control over the world we used to manipulate. They will be designed to render us speechless, inchoate, and eyeless as if we were once in Gaza.

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