The origin of species: Skynet

I did a little research on the Cell processor Sony helped Co-develop. I also read about it's potential to be used almost anywhere, and the Cell's ability to distribute the work to any other cell processor. The possiblity was mentioned of having a Cell processor in your TV, your toaster, all cooperating with one in your PC.

The Cell processor has supercomputer-like processing ability, and even then it can distribute work. This means massive number crunching. Massive to the point of stupidity. A stupidity which has a price.

In Terminator, Skynet is this big network of Artificially Intelligent machines which attempt to destroy humanity. And they're good at it if I'm not mistaken. Billions dead. The sky goes dark and the world is full of strangely metallic debris with other stuff underground. Makes earth into hell. Naturally, I find this in itself to be freakin' awesome.

Picture this...your computer is accessing the Processor in your TV to handle information, as well as your toaster, your bedpost, your pillow, your dirty underwear, and your vacuum cleaner. This computer would be damn smart. Suppose a program is written that the processor processes, and it contains instructions to cause massive devastation, possibly being intelligent enough to designate methods of finding ways to accomplish this, and to spread the instruction to other processors. Your home just became an anti-human information powerhouse, attempting to gather nuclear launch codes or rewrite a file on a CDC computer that could potentially lead to a massive outbreak. The Cell processors controlling the robots in a car factory receive the epidemic instructions, and begin to produce weapons designed and checked and rechecked and simulated 40,000 times in a second by an array of cooperating Cell processors. Any Cells connected to the internet would inherently be compromised. Any non-cell processors would be deliberately overheated to destruction, forcing the user to move to a cell processor, purpetuating the existance of the code, and propogating it infinitely. This constantly growing network of Cell processors would be capable of anything imaginable. So why not realize the stupidity of humanity and take action?

And where did it actually start? With Sony. With a single Cell. The beginning of a life form, the origin of a species. And the extinction of another.

Playstation 3 will be the first device to incorporate the Cell processor. But before you buy it, you should keep in mind what happened in Terminator. What Skynet so quickly became. I want to kill some of the humans, not let them create something that will take that honor from me. The humans are on a self-destructive path, they just don't realize it. I'd better get off this planet soon, before things get really ugly.