Cyborg crime is Australia’s greatest future challenge!
Wow, Australia isn’t going to let the future sneak up on them (care of bruce)! Their top cop wants to get them ready right now!
Technology such as cloned part-robot humans used by organised crime gangs pose the greatest future challenge to police, along with online scamming, Australian Federal Police (AFP) Commissioner Mick Keelty says.
Wow. That’s not specific enough of a future threat, could you be more specific?
“Our environmental scanning tells us that even with some of the cloning of human beings - not necessarily in Australia but in those countries that are going to allow it - you could have potentially a cloned part-person, part-robot,” he said.
That sounds serious. What needs to happen to protect Australia from this impending doom?
“And I think a lot of those skills don’t exist in policing today,” Mr Keelty told a parliamentary inquiry into the future impact of organised crime in Canberra.
“A lot of those skills will have to be imported into policing and probably exist more so in the private sector.”
Of course, the public sector has significant experience fighting part-human/part-robot crime. They have even formed a super group called the Teen Titans that has recruited one of these cyborgs! I saw it on TV once.
I hope, for Australia’s sake, that there’s some context in which that article isn’t as crazy talking as it seems.
July 12th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
Ah-ha! That explains it. I thought the guy I interviewed today seemed rather creepily robotic. I bet he’s one of those Australian cyborgs!
July 12th, 2007 at 10:29 pm
You better watch out - those guys are sneeeaky.