Yes, markets are falling. And yes, there is no denying, we have got some of the most corrupt leaders bar none. Oh, and by the way, don’t get mad at those Taiwanese and Koreans telling our OFWs that Filipinos have no money.

For after all, we are indeed poor, both as individuals and as a people. We are broke. Broke, broke, broke.

But being broke is quite different from being broken. Our spirits are never broken.

The World Bank and other prestigious international organizations might label us the most corrupt country, and some of our contractors, they would declare as pariahs. But while these designations certainly feel like getting buckets of salt rubbed into our collective wounds, we as a people remain strong, and as resilient as the bamboo.

We will survive this present hell. We will outlast all these hurts and harms. We will bear all these sorrows and pains. We will go beyond these social ills. And friends, we will certainly outlast corrupt leaders and governments, and their minions. We will triumph.

Robot Soldiers

Don’t look now, but those scenes from the Star Wars and Terminator movies showing robots battling humans and each other might soon be part of real-world battlefields. In fact, some analysts predict that by 2015, half of the United States military units will be made up of machine recruits.

While the United States currently leads in military robotics technology, other countries including Russia and China are not standing idly by. As with other military technologies, leadership in military robotics will be a very flux concept.

What worries some military experts, though, is the prospect that robot warriors doing the “killing” will potentially make warfare bloodier and nastier. After all, once programmed to shoot, robot soldiers unlike their human counterpart will more reliably do so.

So what do we do now? Design robot peacemakers?

Quantum Hackers

Today’s encryption technologies can adequately protect our important and sensitive personal information, most of the time. Usually, we feel secure knowing that the data we use when we do credit card and banking transactions are secured from the prying eyes and ears of hackers and other IT vermins.

IT experts, however, are warning us that once quantum computing is upon us, all these encryption technologies currently used by banks and business worldwide will be as effective as pieces of legislation passed by our honorable lawmakers. Nobody can blame these experts then for sounding the alarm and calling for new encryption systems to be developed.

After all, a quantum computer-equipped hacker would be like a congressman with a bottomless pork and barrel.

That’s all for the meantime, folks. Join me again next time as we keep on watching IT.