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" They have a private airplane fleet that&amp;#039;s fueled by NASA, which includes a &amp;quot;light attack jet&amp;quot; so badass even the space program borrows it for a joyride every now and then. They&amp;#039;re sitting on one of the world&amp;#039;s largest DNA catalogs, which they make available to the highest bidders. They&amp;#039;re constructing huge, secretive floating fortresses that can anchor off any coastal city, and have voiced their desire to relegate part of the world as an &amp;quot;unregulated experimentation zone.&amp;quot; (It&amp;#039;s a world, by the way, they&amp;#039;ve mapped and photographed literally every inch of\u2014from streets to the ocean&amp;#039;s depths to mountaintops.) They&amp;#039;ve created the ultimate wearable, hackable camera system, and are marketing it to get the general populace to transform themselves into billions of roaming surveillance cameras. They even have a car that makes human drivers obsolete. They are Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. And they&amp;#039;re slowly becoming less like \u00FCber-geek billionaires and more and more like James Bond super villains, down to the sexy seductress minions.  And now they have a personal robot animal army. Boston Dynamics, a firm whose notable accomplishments include this galloping urban &amp;#039;bot dubbed the WildCat; Cheetah, a robot that can outrun Usain Bolt; and BigDog, a four-legged robo-canine with mobility across any terrain from rocks to ice and snow and who can throw cinderblocks should the need arise, boasts, who else, the Pentagon&amp;#039;s Defense Advance Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, as their primary customer. Turns our military leaders see some serious value in developing cross-country ass-kicking cyber critters. Think of them as land-based drones with rabies. And it&amp;#039;s not just robot animals - they&amp;#039;ve got a humanoid, too:      Anybody else having a Terminator flashback? The real question on everyone&amp;#039;s mind, however, is what does search-giant-cum-mechanized-menagerie-owner Google have in mind for their newest acquisition? Not content to merely control 81% of the mobile device market, 67% of the search engine market, and posses half a billion ad-viewing Gmail users, the tech behemoth has been spending heavily on, and certainly isn&amp;#039;t shy about, their robotics program. And while the thought of an autonomous robot butler to handle your chores or more mundane work does indeed have its appeal, if you read between the lines there&amp;#039;s certainly the makings of a much more sinister plotline. As the ubiquitous tech superpower starts to butt heads with governments, including both China&amp;#039;s and our own United States, who can know what will happen when they&amp;#039;re eventually fed up with being told what to do? Better hope James Bond dries out in time to save the day. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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