"Prepare Your Time" - The Gormogons

The Obama administration has a large task in front of them. No, not the economy. It’s defending the country against the increasing risk of Cyberwarfare while still allowing an increase in the use and power of networked computing. Unlike his other problems, there is no way for the President to try to pass the blame onto President Bush. A number of former administrations have laid some groundwork – not enough, mind you – including the last administration pushing forward the Comprehensive National Cyber Security Initiative. Melissa Hathaway has been charged by President Obama to move out on this with a 60-day cyber review.

While the money may be there and the desire, the real challenge will be whether the multitude of federal government agencies can actually move forward on this. Furthermore, there is the increased need for network connectivity on the battlefield. I would be the last to advocate “pulling the plug” and going to standalone networks. There are plenty of things already done and in the works that are dealing with this – I just hope that the typical government bureaucracy won’t stand in the way of additional improvements. It is likely that, in the future, we will be fighting a traditional warfare in concert with a cyberwarfare effort. Maybe things like this will lead us into the next conflict and end up being able to claim that all your base are belong to us. Granted it’s a rumor, but if true, pretty amusing.

GorT

GorT is an eight-foot-tall robot from the 51ˢᵗ Century who routinely time-travels to steal expensive technology from the future and return it to the past for retroinvention. The profits from this pay all the Gormogons’ bills, including subsidizing this website. Some of the products he has introduced from the future include oven mitts, the Guinness widget, Oxy-Clean, and Dr. Pepper. Due to his immense cybernetic brain, GorT is able to produce a post in 0.023 seconds and research it in even less time. Only ’Puter spends less time on research. GorT speaks entirely in zeros and ones, but occasionally throws in a ڭ to annoy the Volgi. He is a massive proponent of science, technology, and energy development, and enjoys nothing more than taking the Czar’s more interesting scientific theories, going into the past, publishing them as his own, and then returning to take credit for them. He is the only Gormogon who is capable of doing math. Possessed of incredible strength, he understands the awesome responsibility that follows and only uses it to hurt people.