Interesting you say that, because i've often wondered myself if Cats are like a biological drone designed to send back data to an undisclosed source.

If you think about it, how easy would it be for advanced technology to capture the synapses and electric impulses the brain releases when it feels, sees, smells, hears or thinks something? Then with this data it could decipher the information with the correct algorithm's and "AI".

Clearly a computer like the new IBM Blue/Gene/Q that runs at over 16 Petaflops, or 16 Quadrillion calculations per second is up to the task.

Now lets do the math - 7 billion people on the planet, divide that into 16 quadrillion and you get 2,428,571.43 scenarios per person per second. Combine that with software that combs the WWW and all electronic surveillance of all data and what do you get?

Skynet on steroids with SuperBorg assimilation properties.

Enter the Borg Cube, i mean New Jerusalem -

"The world’s fastest supercomputer is now Sequoia, an IBM Blue Gene/Q installation at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, primarily for use by the National Nuclear Security Administration. The system’s Linpack benchmark performance is 16.32 petaflops (16 quadrillion floating point operations per second), some 55% faster than the Japanese K, the previous record holder. The Sequoia’s theoretical max performance is just over 20 petaflops. Sequoia will be used to simulate the safety and efficacy of the US nuclear weapons stockpile, without the need for actual underground testing — and other scientific research."


[link to www.extremetech.com]