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Have you ever read a science-based fiction story which contents start happening after 20 years' time? It happened with Jules Verne, predicting air conditioning, automobiles, internet and the internet in his movel "Paris in the 20th Century"; and man setting foot on the moon in "From the Earth to the Moon"; among other inventions mentioned here and there in his books, such as the helicopter, submarines, projectors and jukeboxes. Anyway, coming to the modern day. Not so long ago, writers upped their level of technological immagination and started thinking more about the software side that runs computers. You will find that they started writing about people being able to remotely access a computer or even to have an army of "zombie" computers at his disposal to take over the digital world or collapse it altogether. Even cartoons, such as Digimon - where an initial set of programmers had programmed some form of artificial life to thrive on the net, which project they abandoned but the monsters kept develoiping on their own until they were able to evolve a parallel digital world. Nowadays, such a fantasy is becoming truth. We can see this as computer magazines are currentlyu highlighting the number of botnets, currently the most-known infection being Storm. Such "zombie" computers are currently being made use of for illegal activity on the net, such as phishing, spamming, identity theft and DoS attacks. It seems as though the intelligent robots who will fight for equal rights the writers have been writing about are not that far off from our times ...
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