Skynet Research Launches
Posted 02.16.09 by Bill
Skynet Research is looking for you. A newly launched promo site for Terminator Salvation, Skynet is now up and fully operational. Purporting to be the organization that will bring on the robot-filled apocalypse, It has put out a call for innovative robotic designs. From the pitch on the site, it is already a bit ambiguous as to whether the researchers or their creations are in charge. The welcoming voice effuses a computer-generated menace, and the proposal is presented as part of "our ever-expanding outreach to human communities all over the world." The reassurance of corporate continuity also has a nicely disturbing double edge:
You can rest assured that Skynet is committed to the present with an eye on what is coming over the horizon. Our revolutionary AI innovations and complex systems management programs are a solid base that you can count on being around today, tomorrow and fifty years from now. Skynet is the future!
Yeah, the future's so bright, you've gotta wear shades.