Thursday, 28 June 2007

Revenge of the iPhone?

Steve Jobs’ latest electronic atrocity, the “iPhone,” goes on sale this week, and already some pundits are decrying the expensive gadget as a commercial failure. But what if Jobs’ intentions aren’t...shall we say...entirely benevolent? What if – and this is a big “IF” – the iPhone takes on a life of its own, “smartens up,” as it were? Would the results be a global catastrophe patterned after the self-aware computer network from The Terminator films? Or will it simply become the next here-today-gone-tomorrow electronics trend that ends up on a pile of recycled parts in India? Died-in-the-wool luddites will enjoy this video parody, while the rest of us will simply hold our collective breath and pray for the second coming of John Connor.

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