iCybermen

"THE IPHONE LAUNCHES FRIDAY. Will it be the Apple of your eyes and ears?" --St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 25, 2007

A frightening step in technology has occured.

Don't get me wrong. I welcome new technology so as long as it is for the good for all those who use it. But the iPhone is anything but benevolent. I see it as a horror. There are so many vague conditions about the iPhone that should make any techno-savvy geek shudder.

This mashup is called iCyberman. A preview of science fiction horror that may very well become real in the near future. The scary parts are not the iCybermen's hollow stare or viral behavior to "upgrade" humans and "delete" all those who reject it, but the vauge patents, trademarks, and copyrights of the iCybermen. The "intelectual property" laws that created monsters out of robots.

In order to separate the Doctor Who Cybermen from the Apple iCyberman, the steel body is now a white "iPod" looking frame. The wires covered with black plastic.

Cybermen created by Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis
Doctor Who and Cybermen (c) BBC