Anyone still thinking that The Terminator movies show the future of human enslavement should wake up to the real threat: Cellphones. Reuters has an article detailing the continuing rise of the worlds favorite gadget. Mobile services are replacing devices like satellite navigation, and throwing in increasingly accurate directory services. They are set to gobble up even more standalone boxes in a convergence-gone-wild future.
The article cites a repair man who has ditched paper maps and satnav for Verizon's navigation service, and a woman who uses a service from Disney (yes, that Disney) to keep track of her children.
Convenient, undoubtedly, but us humans need to keep a little distance, otherwise we will end up like the British women who put so much faith in her GPS that she drove her car right onto a railroad track in front of an oncoming train.
Obviously, we're all for these kinds of gizmos here at The Lab, but when the phone networks achieve sentience, we won't have the Governator to help us.
