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Originally Posted by Undertoad
DARPA didn't start Google or any those companies that' I'm aware. Links?
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DARPA LifeLog
The objective of the LifeLog concept was "to be able to trace the 'threads' of an individual's life in terms of events, states, and relationships", and it has the ability to "take in all of a subject's experience, from phone numbers dialed and e-mail messages viewed to
every breath taken, step made and place gone".[1]
The DARPA program was canceled in January, 2004, after criticism from civil libertarians concerning the privacy implications of the system.[4] The same month Facebook launches and some people speculate that Facebook
might (?) be a continuation of the Life Log project. [5]
[1]"Pentagon Explores a New Frontier In the World of Virtual Intelligence"
[4] Pentagon Kills LifeLog Project
[5]Darpa's LifeLog "canceled" the same day Facebook was founded (Feb 4, 2004).
What are people of this age always looking for? Better ways of doing almost everything. Better analysis and prediction of trends and understanding complexities previously unused, not understood or even unaware of.
Data. To "improve" everything. To create more comprehensive, more economical and effective systems and processes.
Is it incomprehensible that government and industry would not want to collect all possible data to create "better" policies, procedures and conclusions? For their benefit and not necessarily ours?
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Originally Posted by slang
DARPA---Google---LifeLog---FaceBook---YouTube---Twitter---23andMe---The Brain Initiative---AncestoryDotCom---LinkedIn
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The Long Read: Google – Seeded By The Pentagon
"By Dr Nafeez Ahmed – Insurge Intelligence: As our governments push to increase their powers, INSURGE INTELLIGENCE can now reveal the vast extent to which the US intelligence community is implicated in nurturing the web platforms we know today, for the precise purpose of utilizing the technology as a mechanism to fight a global ‘information war’ — a war to legitimize the power of the few over the rest of us."
What are your citizens wanting to know about? What are they searching for online? How can you appear to be of help to people while effectively learning their trends in real time?
You could create Google. Or F***book, or Youtube, or Twitter, or 23andMe, etc. They aren't evil, you know.
But it's just me, I'm the only guy creeped out by all this.
