The Internet Will Kill Us All
Plan on living though the apocalypse in three days? Don't get too excited, the internet will be the death of us all by 2014 anyway.
What's in store two years from now? Murder and mayhem -- literally, says IID president and CTO Rod Rasmussen. He says, and I'm not making this up, that in 2014 we will see the first homicides committed remotely using the Internet as the murder weapon.
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