That was actually the (somewhat belaboured and clumsily executed) point of Ghost in The Shell. I've felt for a long time now that the older I get, the more the world looks like a mashup novel of George Orwell and Philip K. Dick. I guess I have to add Masamune Shirow to that list, now. OWS and Anonymous both bear a striking resemblance to the goings on in Stand-Alone Complex.
On another note, there is a lot written in the counter-insurgency (COIN) literature about the difficulty of fighting a decentralized, amourphous enemy and the inability of a traditional, rigidly structured military force to effectively combat it.
...a mixture of urea, glycerol, and soap...
How did they find this formula? Did one of the researchers piss in a bottle of liquid soap?
It's a naive, domestic operating system without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.