creepy news stuff

i'm at cafe moro today...catching up on the internet. it's getting pretty huge, that internet. and if you do some research (which involves following links, and thinking, both of which are difficult on 3 hours of sleep), you can find some incredibly creepy shit.

i'm not talking about puppy sex or dolphins emailing each other. i'm talking about hardcore sci-fi-turned-real-life shit. which is arguably even more horrifying than the aforementioned.

here are the links where a few of my forays into nightmare futures began:
http://www.cracked.com/article_15243_next-25-years-video-games.html

i started out genuinely interested in this, because i did some research as an undergrad on the kinds of gaming technologies mentioned in the first item, related to the game "spore", which i'm totally going to buy when it comes out. but then my interest turned to horror the further and further into the article that i read.

then there's this:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/23/60minutes/main579657.shtml

which is horrifying for a number of reasons, the first of which of course being that the phrase "all of the sudden" is actually used in a fucking news story on cbsnews.com. but also, the whole spying thing, plus the fact that this article is from 2003 (which means it's probably ten times more pervasive by now) makes life a little more scarier.

most scary.