I think that in the future we are going to see many otherwise uninvolved megacorporations (zaibatsus), General Electric, Sony, Matsushita, Microsoft, Virgin, Phillips, Gilette, Nokia? start to dump vast amounts of cash into their own sekret, guarded by ex-marine mercenaries & machine gun wielding autonomous drones, with electric fences & ubiquitous surveilance systems guided by pre-empting data mining artificial intelligences, genetics & oceanagraphic research labs, for reasons that seem to be the whim or hobby of a few high level executives in each corporation who have lunch with the high level executives of each other corporation. They will mount expeditions into the deep Southern Pacific, where they will attempt to capture alive children Giant Squid, tranquilize them, and drag them back to their research dungeons. They will disect & mutilate & electroshock those giant squid, muddle with their genes, clone & breed them to their satsifaction as terrifying organic machines with the sole function of violence.

Great aquatic stadiums will be constructed in urban city centers, subsidized by citizen tax money. Dangling above the crowds of hundreds of thousands two squids will be bound, branded with corporate logos (Eat Armor Hotdogs!), huge seething rubbery tentacles grappling franticly for the other squid, the screaming spectators, anything alive, while the enormous video screens mounted on all sides of the stadium count down to zero. Into the pool the contenders will be dropped, rip each other's limbs and flesh off in such a spectacular display of gore never found in nature.

Millions will watch the satelite feed & make casual Internet bets through their cellphones, retinal implants, family multi-tainment centers sharing popcorn & KoolAid, listening to the energy charged voice of the event commentators (who are now pure software agents with voice synthesizers, maintaining direct lines to Nielson boxes implanted directly in consumer's brains, monitoring horomonal discharges and modifying their program according to the emotional peaks and lulls of their audience). The home audience will listen to the After-The-Game specials where white coated lab technicians will explain in simple strictly-laymen fact sized statements tailored for public consumption why their corporations' research genetic research advancements have created the perfect Battle Squid.

A new brand of corporate identity & loyalty will be born. Consumers will buy only the products & stock of their team corporation. Corporations not rich enough to compete will become irrelevant. Government issued money will be replaced by corporate issued scrip.