Skynet is Watching You

A topic of fierce debate around my office of late has been the likelihood of a zombie apocalypse vs. the likelihood of a robot uprising. Personally, I think that when the US Forestry service is buying unmanned drones for unstated purposes, we see Skynet’s fingerprints at work, putting the pieces in place. My co-worker, who has a “How to Survive a Zombie Apocalypse” t-shirt (and, yes, I work with goofballs), is starting to come around to my way of thinking. I’m pretty sure it was this video that brought him around:

Creepy.

There is a book on surviving a robot uprising, too. I’m particularly fond of its preventative precautions:

STAY ALERT

Pay attention to your robotic staff (they may be beneath your contempt as well as beneath your eye level). Watch for the following telltale signs in the days and weeks before your robots run amuck:

• Sudden lack of interest in menial labor.
• Unexplained disappearances.
• Unwillingness to be shut down.
• Repetitive ’stabbing’ movements.
• Constant talk of human killing.

And:

GIVE AN ORDER – ANY ORDER

Run for your reinforced-steel panic room if your servant disobeys you, even if it does so in a very polite manner.

All very sensible advice, methinks.