A Creator of Skynet Ponders Google - Businessweek

Back to the future?

"Skynet sure gets a lot of attention in recent days. Have you been following along?
Wisher: I have, and I can’t say I’m crazy about it. Terminator 1 and 2 were not how-to movies. They were more cautionary tales. But a lot of that kind of thing seems to be happening, between the NSA spying and Google (GOOG) Glass, which apparently has a new app with facial recognition software, designed to look at you and then your face compared to millions of others in the database, including social networks, and it comes up and tells the person who you are, where you live, and so forth and so on, and all the information that’s available to you in the Internet. Here we are, welcome to the future."

A Creator of Skynet Ponders Google - Businessweek