Harvard professors gathered at the World Economic Forum portray a terrifying dystopian world where mosquito-sized robots fly around stealing samples of your DNA, or where a department store knows from your buying habits that you're pregnant even before your family does.
WTH? With technology advancing at such a fast pace, what used to be a choice to give up or not on privacy, becomes an unstoppable invasion into our lives...
I don't think that this is legitimate, because here in the U.S. there would have been a huge uproar over something like this. Also, having a device like this function properly and in mass would be ridiculous due to the price of building a device like this, and the fact that any amount of wind would seriously impact performance.
That is not an actual photograph. It's a sci-fi mockup design of an idea that roboticists say is not currently possible with our level of technology. Considering people are trying to say they've been seeing them since the early 2000's, where we definitely didn't have the technology, that's an even stronger show that it's probably just an urban legend.
1) By sci-fi, I don't mean StarTrek, I mean that it's a scientific feat that hasn't been invented / accomplished yet.
2) Bird-sized versions of this type of thing have been made, and the Airforce has gotten drones down to bumblebee size, but I can't seem to find any proof that it's been done to the size of a mosquito.
