Most likely, the producers did not have the money or time to render the large swarm effects with greater quality. As the saying goes, quickly, cheaply, or well; pick two. In defense of the CGI, it would be completely impossible to visually convey the enormity of the swarms in long shots without it.
The Enya song called Orinoco Flow. This kind of ambient music was briefly in the spotlight during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The likely answer is that they are simply too short-sighted and ignorant to care about the repercussions. As demonstrated by the ozone layer and CFC problem from the 1980s, people do not take much notice of or remember the (potential) environmental catastrophes that are averted before people start to die from them.
Because the story required it.
The conflict between a private company, and the gov't who regulate them, demanding legally-questionable favours (access to the ADI's visual feed, used for facial recognition of targets, but potentially with near-limitless privacy-invading surveillance applicationsthat any gov't would LOVE to have access to) is a key theme of the episode.
Also, if it WAS a gov't project, record of (past OR present) employees could fairly easily be buried. Or a police invstigation could just be called off, with no explanation beyond "national security".
Basically, the story NEEDED the more limited power of a private company, rather than the gov't, in order to work. (of course, you could always write a slightly DIFFERENT story, about a bee-robot project that IS funded by the government... but by definition, that would be a DIFFERENT story...)
In short, the answer to EVERY question like this, about the specifics of the plot in any tv episode/movie/video game, etc, is ALWAYS "because the script says so..."
Because the story required it.
The conflict between a private company, and the gov't who regulate them, demanding legally-questionable favours (access to the ADI's visual feed, used for facial recognition of targets, but potentially with near-limitless privacy-invading surveillance applicationsthat any gov't would LOVE to have access to) is a key theme of the episode.
Also, if it WAS a gov't project, record of (past OR present) employees could fairly easily be buried. Or a police invstigation could just be called off, with no explanation beyond "national security".
Basically, the story NEEDED the more limited power of a private company, rather than the gov't, in order to work. (of course, you could always write a slightly DIFFERENT story, about a bee-robot project that IS funded by the government... but by definition, that would be a DIFFERENT story...)
In short, the answer to EVERY question like this, about the specifics of the plot in any tv episode/movie/video game, etc, is ALWAYS "because the script says so..."
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