V3 terrifies itself helping Cambridge University identify threats to our future
9. Mobile phone radiation turns us to zombies
"Ha, yeah, mobile phones cause radiation, good one." Or so we all said during the first 25 years of phone use. Then, suddenly, around 2020, everything changed.
Reports of keen phone reviewers biting people surfaced, followed by hordes of mindless, uncontrollable pale-faced monsters hanging around outside Apple stores in the dead of night...oh wait, they might have just been queuing for the new iPhone.
Still, the endless radiation spewing from our gadgets as they latch onto Wi-Fi networks and phone signals could be causing all kinds of strange malfunctions to our bodies that as yet are lying dormant.
So if you find yourself suddenly hankering for a nice piece of brain, perhaps it's time to step away from the smartphone.
8. Medical experiments turn against us
The phrase "playing God" is often tossed around when scientists embark on some new frontier of medical experimentation - such as the cloning of Dolly the sheep or stem cell research. But our demand for knowledge shows no sign of abating.
We continually develop new drugs to fend off illness and undertake amazing surgery such as face grafts and organ transplants.
While such work is vital for our continued understanding of our own bodies and the various threats to our health, the risk of the creation of some new super virus or bug in a lab that we are unable to control if it were to escape into the wild isn't beyond the realms of impossibility.
Definitely one for the Cambridge folk to discuss - perhaps they can call on the philosophy department for help.
