In essence, they're a faeces lickin' insect which has evolved to the extreme in efficiency at not being caught dead lickin' faeces.

The sheer speed in which the information from their sensors travels and is then put into action is astonishing, really, and the video is enjoyable.

Yeah! Except not all flies are associated with poo. Ha ha ha! :)

I laughed out loud in the video when the narration was like "It seems like they can see the future. They can see you coming from any angle. This is because they have " goes on to describe their incredible compound eyes, 100 times faster sense data processing versus humans, faster reactions. So cool! :)

Humanity is lost with social media. The internet is in want of a hard delete.

I must admit, part of me is hoping the latest shenanigans with reddit lead to its demise, I spend way too much time on it.

I too am tantilised by the idea of social media, and most of the newsmedia, going out like a light overnight.

I'd happily see it take businesses whose model rely upon it with them - including this current approach to 'AI' and political campaigning.

Would it be the start of the world or the end?

Before there was FARK, or any of these Web 2.0 popular content aggregators there was The Temple of The Screaming Electron.

I like Peter Singer's 1971 essay 'Famine, Affluence and Morality', when taken with a little Jung.