Do Cyborgs dream of electric sheep?

That popped into my head as an old buddy of mine sent me this:

Can cyborg moths bring down terrorists? A moth which has a computer chip implanted in it while in the cocoon will enable soldiers to spy on insurgents, the US military hopes.

He accompanied it with this commentary.

But this sort of thing just creeps me out. Combine this with the Israelis development of little remote controlled 'skeeter' missiles and ones paranoia can run rampant.

On the other hand, having a little skeeter with an HE warhead smack into OBLs forehead with a nice resulting "bang" is an appealing thought.

My first thought in response to that was... or a head of state.

My response to my auld buddy was, "Heh. You have no *idea* what the boffins are up to. But I'm with ya on the creepy part."

His response?

Well, if you recall that old Kurt Russell movie "Universal Soldier"....

Without being toooooo dramatic about it, with the advances being made in 'cloning' and now combined with this sort of technology, I wonder if SCIFI fantasy cyborg soldiers/critters are really all that far off?

And as Stormtrooper "Starwars" style exoskeletons are being developed for bodyarmor, perhaps it's time to welcome the Imperium and just get it over with.

I can see where future soldiers are implanted/grown with mini-computers hardwiring them up. The question is, just how far off is it?

Brrrrr.

As regards the Israeli developments of skeeters, some of the usual sorts are already calling for an international non-proliferation treaty ban on them being developed, much less being employed.

I honestly dont know how you'd defend against this sort of attack. The only thing I could think of was some means to short circuit the electronics, like a big bug zapper field, to disable them.

Truth is, the genie is almost out of the bottle and once he escapes, this sort of nasty lil' tech will find its way into the wrong hands. Mark my words, within 5 years, if not sooner, of this tech being deployed, we will see some major event where a head of state has his head go *bang* from a remote controlled skeeter.

Brrrr, again I say, brrrrr.

I've seen two schools of development on this. One with the organics they've tested using remote control joysticks and mini-cams for cockroaches, moths, mice etc.

And then there's the Israeli mechanical mini-robots.

I don't know which is scarier, not to mention the inevitable combination of the two. Which is only a matter of time before they meld the two technologies.

Brrrrr.

And, I don't EVEN wanna contemplate what could happen with self-aware AIs being used for this sort of thing.

Terminator and rise of the machines indeed. Self-aware, 'intelligent' skeeters with explosive
pinhole warheads.....

Brrr, brrrr, brrrrr....

Laters. Gotta go form my tinfoil hat and get my black helicopter detectors turned on.

And mebbe buy a can of Raid....

I'll hafta get a new bulb for the bug zapper, too.

H/t to my old buddy Kevin G.