ABC i-caught: presenting internet videos on TV

I thought that "i-CAUGHT" might have interesting future where TV is blended with internet video. I guess do people care? There are various sites which can promote specific clips like digg, but maybe it doesn't matter since internet will become the main, central information source of our daily lives, I believe. TV will be a side show (freak show?) since it can only present one view and gives little control to the viewer. Internet on the other hand allows users to add comments or frame the context (like writing text and then embedding the video or other quotes in the middle) and eventually mash or manipulate the original video/text (like the way ClearPlay mutes or skips scenes but allow overlays to add or remove elements in the video).

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New Level of Risks: Robotic Warfare

I read "Navy gears up for unmanned combat aircraft" and thought: as these remote controlled war machines and even autonomous robotic ones get into the battlefield, the next level of warfare is to crack into these machines either through their communications link or even directly into the machines somehow [the weak links are: manufacturing (when it is made), programming at military installation (when it is programmed before release) or while being transported from factory to battlefield].

Unlike the wars of the past (where you can individually bribe or blackmail soldiers but not en mass), it would be possible to "infect" all machines (or most of them) to attack the robotic "masters" (i.e., create essentially an electronic mutiny). A counter measure protection would be to shutdown or self destruct when probes are detected (to prevent mutiny) but then that weakness can be exploited to disable the machines at the get go. And the cop-and-robber chase would continue....

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