Halloween is the spookiest time of the year. Here at ReadWrite, we couldn’t help but think of tech-based nightmares. And we couldn’t help but share them…
- Google combines everything it knows about you from all its various services – and then uses it to blackmail you over your insipid kitten photos and lame taste in music.
- Gray Goo – nanobots running out of control and destroying everything. Or on a larger scale, your 3D printer starts making copies of itself. Which start making copies of themselves…
- You buy a brand new tablet, and the next day a new model comes out and makes yours obsolete. And makes you feel like a sucker.
- Now that Disney is buying LucasFilm, Jar Jar Binks shows up in every new Disney movie.
- Being the first person to die in an accident caused by a self-driving car.
- Stuxnet decides to invade your smartphone.
- Not being able to catch your brand new fancy Nikon SLR when experimenting with Camera Toss Photography.
- You wake up from a dream, and you really are CEO of RIM.
- You get arrested for jailbreaking your iPad.
- Your startup gets bought for millions in stock – but it turns out to be Zynga stock.
And of course, because we’re ReadWrite, we offer a bonus tech nightmare:
11. You’re the next
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Thanks to Jon Mitchell, Jim Nash, and Christina Ortiz for their terrifying contributions. And we all want to know, what are YOU afraid of today?
Besides this, of course:
