salarua@sopuli.xyz to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoBig Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would havemessage-squaremessage-square223fedilinkarrow-up11.34Karrow-down114file-text
arrow-up11.33Karrow-down1message-squareBig Tech companies are finally getting the names we thought dystopian megacorps would havesalarua@sopuli.xyz to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square223fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareScrof@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up53·edit-21 year agoMy first ISP in the late 90s was Skynet Online.
minus-squarebob_wiley@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·1 year agoI’m actually pretty surprised Elon didn’t call StarLink SkyNet.
minus-squareEarthwormjim91@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up34·edit-21 year agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite) The UK already owns it. I’m pretty sure Terminator takes the name from the UK military satellite network. And SpaceX has launched Skynet satellites for them before so there is probably some agreement. The NSA also already has a surveillance program named SKYNET, which uses machine learning. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKYNET_(surveillance_program) That one I’m pretty sure was named after the Terminator program.
My first ISP in the late 90s was Skynet Online.
I’m actually pretty surprised Elon didn’t call StarLink SkyNet.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(satellite)
The UK already owns it. I’m pretty sure Terminator takes the name from the UK military satellite network. And SpaceX has launched Skynet satellites for them before so there is probably some agreement.
The NSA also already has a surveillance program named SKYNET, which uses machine learning. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SKYNET_(surveillance_program)
That one I’m pretty sure was named after the Terminator program.