Posted on Friday 20 May 2005

I suppose I was distressed enough when I found out that, when viewed from space, the Earth was in fact branded with copyright messages for Google — presumably these are intended to warn off any other sentient extraterrestrial A.I.'s that might get ideas.

But now I realise that the Googleplex has gone a step further in defending its terrestrial sandpit by deploying a grid of low-orbit robot sentinels (BETA) which are presumably packed with enough firepower to make any turf war an uneconomic and mutually destructive proposition.

I only hope that in the era of cyber-brinkmanship we can trust our massively-parallel-architectured overlord will stand by his/her/its promise to not be evil.