Osama bin Laden's credibility will take a tumble when his latest Al-Jazeera blockbuster features him in moth-eaten rags.

It's genius when you think about it.

Control the bug-bug? Larva you than me.

We can prove you've been naughty, not LIce. You've been bug bugged. Worm your way out of that one

I'll presumably pick up the radio link on my chrysalis set. Do I need a special Ant-enna?

Is using bugs to gather intelligence for the government a kind of anarcophobia?

Would the police have to use any particular specis? Bluebottles?

If they caught me beating someone up, would they charge me with assault and butterfly?

Just think - when these things finally make it into the public domain, we'd have mothers-in-law using the dragon-fly variant.

That's all, I'm pupa'd

Be aphid. Be very aphid

...stand out. Especially when the sun hits their shiny new robotic monkey bodies.

Just think of it as a new immersive experience in alternate sentience. They likely will not even need to apple core a larger being. Just hack the hell out of it and send it pleasure/pain sensations for doing the right/wrong thing. We are already able to get the brain to learn and even grow to interface with external devices to help paralyzed and locked in (but still very conscious) humans to access a computer and thus the world around them. That just means that the PoC is done. And that is what the public knows about.

I am sure that there will be no shortage of dolts or even higher intelligence humans looking for a varied level of symbiotic/mutually parasitic relationship with some government organization. Occasional surrender of autonomy in exchange for surgical implants and good pay.

Hell, this is already done to force suicide bombers to target WITHOUT wires. Threaten their families. Imagine that sort of impetus jacked straight into the brain if one strayed from the mission objectives.

OR the increased chances of a team of people working behind you with external feed and information sources as you [perform random mission type] with visual and auditory feedback to the team.

Rise of the Machines this is not why?

@Fluffykins: you need a lie down after that, maybe a bit of a life even.