Issue (WIWE) status: Submitted, Unpublished

Wild Card's progress: Basic

This Wild Card came from: 
European Commission Framework Programme for RTD

The theme/scheme related to this Wild Card: 
Theme 3 - ICT - Information & communication technologies

The sub-theme that best relates to this Wild Card: 
Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics

Likelihood timeframe and scenario features : 
now-2050

Wild Card's description: 

Huge quantities of robotic bugs and flies of unknown origin were uncovered in many top-class research centres across Europe. These miniature spies are able to organise themselves autonomously, collect information from their surrounding (especially pictures and sounds) and transmit it further. Also they are suspicious to be able to infect electronic laboratory and office equipment by computer viruses. Particularly strategic research centres and infrastructures are wholly paralysed by these artificial spies.