It's something I'd never bring up on the forum of political old men because unlike you lot they have little knowledge of how computers work, generally. And have no capacity to imagine the possibilities of the way things work and can work.
So I had a friend who worked on a certain technology project at the heart of the original Tony Blair for Prime Minister New Labour campaign which began the whole Labour era in Britain. This software tool called Excalibur was a way of being able to answer political questions very rapidly on any topic when asked to do so by the press and other inquisitors. The candidates were technologically empowered to debate convincingly.
So there it is. What is Excalibur today, where is it and what is it doing... are questions I'm sure anyone intelligent here (myself included) is wondering.
Here's more talk of it, still from LONG ago, but it shows how real it all is and what the dangers really are - as people who build a lot of technological paraphernalia, and know all about tracking and logging and pattern matching, we can, between us, imagine quite a bit about what they're really getting up to with it now...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardia...ardianletters1
Who's watching Big Brother? I mean. If no one does that, what will happen?
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe4_OMAWJVs
Maybe someone DOES watch big brother, eh? Maybe humanity isn't as weak as it looks to anyone passing by. |
