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"Minority Report" Is 40 Years Ahead of Schedule: The Fictional World Has Become Reality
Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,
“The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The thrilling thing is, that will make us feel we’re part of the medium. The scary thing is, we’ll lose our right to privacy. An ad will appear in the air around us, talking directly to us.”—Director Steven Spielberg, Minority Report
We are a scant 40 years away from the futuristic world that science fiction author Philip K. Dick envisioned for Minority Report in which the government is all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful, and if you dare to step out of line, dark-clad police SWAT teams will crack a few skulls to bring the populace under control.
Unfortunately, as I point out in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, we may have already arrived at the year 2054.
Increasingly, the world around us resembles Dick’s dystopian police state in which the police combine widespread surveillance, behavior prediction technologies, data mining and precognitive technology to capture would-be criminals before they can do any damage. In other words, the government’s goal is to prevent crimes before they happen: precrime.
For John Anderton (played by Tom Cruise), Chief of the Department of Pre-Crime in Washington, DC, the technology that he relies on for his predictive policing proves to be fallible, identifying him as the next would-be criminal and targeting him for preemptive measures. Consequently, Anderton finds himself not only attempting to prove his innocence but forced to take drastic measures in order to avoid capture in a surveillance state that uses biometric data and sophisticated computer networks to track its citizens.
Seemingly taking its cue from science fiction, technology has moved so fast in the short time since Minority Report premiered in 2002 that what once seemed futuristic no longer occupies the realm of science fiction. Incredibly, as the various nascent technologies employed and shared by the government and corporations alike—facial recognition, iris scanners, massive databases, behavior prediction software, and so on—are incorporated into a complex, interwoven cyber network aimed at tracking our movements, predicting our thoughts and controlling our behavior, Spielberg’s unnerving vision of the future is fast becoming our reality.
Examples abound.
FICTION: In Minority Report, police use holographic data screens, city-wide surveillance cameras, dimensional maps and database feeds to monitor the movements of its citizens.
REALITY CHECK: Microsoft, in a partnership with New York City, has developed a crime-fighting system that “will allow police to quickly collate and visualise vast amounts of data from cameras, licence plate readers, 911 calls, police databases and other sources. It will then display the information in real time, both visually and chronologically, allowing investigators to centralise information about crimes as they happen or are reported.”
FICTION: No matter where people go in the world of Minority Report, one’s biometric data precedes them, allowing corporations to tap into their government profile and target them for advertising based on their highly individual characteristics. So fine-tuned is the process that it goes way beyond gender and lifestyle to mood detection, so that while Anderton flees through a subway station and then later a mall, the stores and billboards call out to him with advertising geared at his interests and moods. Eventually, in an effort to outwit the identification scanners, Anderton opts for surgery to have his eyeballs replaced.
REALITY CHECK: Google is working on context-based advertising that will use environmental sensors in your cell phone, laptop, etc., to deliver “targeted ads tailored to fit with what you’re seeing and hearing in the real world.” However, long before Google set their sights on context advertising, facial and iris recognition machines were being employed, ostensibly to detect criminals, streamline security checkpoints processes, and facilitate everyday activities. For example, in preparing to introduce such technology in the United States, the American biometrics firm Global Rainmakers Inc. (GRI) turned the city of Leon, Mexico into a virtual police state by installing iris scanners, which can scan the irises of 30-50 people per minute, throughout the city.
Police departments around the country have begun using the Mobile Offender Recognition and Information System, or MORIS, a physical iPhone add-on that allows police officers patrolling the streets to scan the irises and faces of suspected criminals and match them against government databases. In fact, in 2014, the FBI launched a nationwide database of iris scans for use by law enforcement agencies in their efforts to track criminals.
Corporations, as well, are beginning to implement eye-tracking technology in their tablets, smartphones, and computers. It will allow companies to track which words and phrases the user tends to re-read, hover on, or avoid, which can give insight into what she is thinking. This will allow advertisers to expand on the information they glean from tracking users’ clicks, searches, and online purchases, expanding into the realm of trying to guess what a user is thinking based upon their eye movements, and advertising accordingly. This information as it is shared by the corporate elite with the police will come in handy for police agencies as well, some of which are working on developing predictive analysis of “blink rates, pupil dilation, and deception.”
In ideal conditions, facial-recognition software is accurate 99.7 percent of the time. We are right around the corner from billboards capable of identifying passersby, and IBM has already been working on creating real world advertisements that react to people based upon RFID chips embedded in licenses and credit cards.
FICTION: In Minority Report, John Anderton’s Pre-Crime division utilizes psychic mutant humans to determine when a crime will take place next.
REALITY CHECK: While no psychic mutants are powering the government’s predictive policing efforts, the end result remains the same: a world in which crimes are prevented through the use of sophisticated data mining, surveillance, community policing and precrime. For instance, police in major American cities have been test-driving a tool that allows them to identify individuals—or groups of individuals—most likely to commit a crime in a given community. Those individuals are then put on notice that their movements and activities will be closely monitored and any criminal activity (by them or their associates) will result in harsh penalties. In other words, you are guilty before you are given any chance to prove you are innocent.
The Department of Homeland Security is also working on its Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST, which will utilize a number of personal factors such as “ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate to ‘detect cues indicative of mal-intent.’”
FICTION: In Minority Report, government agents use “sick sticks” to subdue criminal suspects using less-lethal methods.
REALITY CHECK: A variety of less-lethal weapons have been developed in the years since Minority Report hit theaters. In 2007, the Department of Homeland Security granted a contract to Intelligent Optical Systems, Inc., for an “LED Incapacitator,” a flashlight-like device that emits a dazzling array of pulsating lights, incapacitating its target by causing nausea and vomiting. Raytheon has created an “Assault Intervention Device” which is basically a heat ray that causes an unbearable burning sensation on its victim’s skin. The Long Range Acoustic Device, which emits painful noises in order to disperse crowds, has been seen at the London Olympics and G20 protests in Pittsburgh.
FICTION: A hacker captures visions from the “precog” Agatha’s mind and plays them for John Anderton.
REALITY CHECK: While still in its infancy, technology that seeks to translate human thoughts into computer actions is slowly becoming a reality. Jack Gallant, a neuroscientist at UC Berkeley, and his research team have created primitive software capable of translating the thoughts of viewers into reconstructed visual images. A company named Emotiv is developing technology which will be capable of reading a user’s thoughts and using them as inputs for operating machinery, like voice recognition but with brain signals. Similar devices are being created to translate thoughts into speech.
FICTION: In Minority Report, tiny sensory-guided spider robots converge on John Anderton, scan his biometric data and feed it into a central government database.
REALITY CHECK: An agency with the Department of Defense is working on turning insects into living UAVs, or “cybugs.” By expanding upon the insects’ natural abilities (e.g., bees’ olfactory abilities being utilized for bomb detection, etc.), government agents hope to use these spy bugs to surreptitiously gather vast quantities of information. Researchers eventually hope to outfit June beetles with tiny backpacks complete with various detection devices, microphones, and cameras. These devices could be powered by the very energy produced by the bugs beating their wings, or the heat they give off while in flight. There have already been reported sightings of dragonfly-like robotic drones monitoring protesters aerially in Washington, DC, as early as 2007.
FICTION: In Minority Report, Anderton flees his pursuers in a car whose movements are tracked by the police through the use of onboard computers. All around him, autonomous, driver-less vehicles zip through the city, moving people to their destinations based upon simple voice commands.
REALITY CHECK: Congress is now requiring that all new cars come equipped with event data recorders that can record and transmit data from onboard computers. Similarly, insurance companies are offering discounts to drivers who agree to have tracking bugs installed. Google has also created self-driving cars which have already surpassed 300,000 miles of road testing. It is anticipated that self-driving cars could be on American roads within the next 20 years, if not sooner.
These are but a few of the technological devices now in the hands of those who control the corporate police state. Fiction, in essence, has become fact—albeit, a rather frightening one.
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...Fiction, in essence, has become fact—albeit, a rather frightening one.
The Short Bus has just gotten much shorter. ;-)
Looney
If the government really wanted to stop crime before it happens they should install a self destruct button and punch it now. A criminal enterprise wanting to prevent crime, imagine that. Sounds like they want to eliminate the competition.
Precrime is fancy branding for the right to arrest anyone for any reason.
The Communists and Nazis were way ahead on this one.
The original Minority Report had a great ending. The protaganist walks up to the Dick Cheney of the story and blows his brains out in broad daylight in front of a crowd listening to the Dick Cheney of the story give a speech. Funny thing is "Dick Cheney" gets to read about how his brains are going to get blown out right before it happens.
Goddamm those aliens crashing at Roswell, leaving all their highfaluting semiconductors around. We would have been busy for the next 500 years screwing around with vacuum tubes.
They can fly from their star to our Homeworld. Just can't land the damn thing. sarc
The aliens' ineptitude at landing has always made me wonder too.
I meant to edit my comment in a completely different direction. And now for something completely different but it didn't stick.
In my heart of hearts, I don't think this is going to work as well for them as they may think. Call it the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.
Blowback is fluidic, best measured in retrospect.
Nothing ever works out as planned. Nothing!
We are in a race of abscissas. Once our knowledge curve intercedes theirs we will have our death-cross and they will be done.
Never underestimate their ability to devour each other either.
"The Department of Homeland Security is also working on its Future Attribute Screening Technology, or FAST, which will utilize a number of personal factors such as “ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate to ‘detect cues indicative of mal-intent.’”"
That is going to be such a serious clusterfuck. Give me a database full of areas with their demographics and crime rates, and I will most likely be able to tell you about what an area's crime rate is using demographics alone. But when you get down to the individual level, it's a whole other ballgame. They may think that they have the technology to capture enough variables to explain all of the variance in their "predictions," but they do not. Such a system will lead to a further degredataion in the trust of police and a much bigger waste of resources than anybody who is pushing this could possibly imagine. Here's why:
You have 1000 people, one of whom is a criminal, and a test that is 99% accurate when detecting criminals. Now apply that to all 1000 people. How many innocent people would you expect to get flagged as criminals? Why, 1% of 999 people, or 9.99 (basicallly 10, for the obvious reason.) How many criminals would you likely catch? 0.99 (basically one, again, for the obvious reason.) I betchya their system won't be anywhere near 99% accurate becuase of the nature of such things mean that using the input variables that they'll have access too will not put the explained variance of the output variables anywhere near close enough to 100%. They'll have to have their machine spit out probabilities that somebody is going to commit a crime, and then when they look at how accurate it is, the dumbfucks will probably only look at all of the criminals that it caught while ignoring all of the innocent people that it ruined. Then, after the rash of civil rights lawsuits, they'll have to introduce a bigger bias which makes it less likely to flag criminals.
=1% colateral damage, bring on the drones.
fiction becomes reality (no longe ronly happens in the movies!)? well, more like "reality" back-engineered to fiction, scripted into movies, to show "intent"... (oh, they know, these more-advanced entities)
to slave, farm, and control.
Bring on the zoombies, ex-Machinas, transformers...
Humanity IS Fucked, still thinking we're scientifically advanced !.
I should have been more specific. It'll either be as usless as tits on a billy goat, or it'll be a fuckton more than 1% collateral damage. A project that I'm working on right now involves using demographics to predict outcomes. One of the issues of interest is, how much of the variance in the outcome is explained by the demographics. Depending on the data set, it is anywhere from 75% to 60%, and there is a shitload of cross correlations between demographics, meaning that often you can swap one for the other, and get similar results. That means that adding variables doesn't necessiarily add information. Adding in heart rate and breating isn't going to get them any near 99% accuracy.
Facial recognition tied to a data base of cell intercepts, that then coralated with thermal and back scatter imaging, things happen
That's not the system that DHS is working on for pre-crime. That's a post crime kind of thing. For pre-crime, they will bring about such a clusterfuck that it will either be completely useless, or the logistics of it will crush them. And, FYI, for post crime, there are already enough laws on the books that they don't need a technological monstrosity.
Throw these variables in, brah:
Dynamite thefts
Local bulk food store purchases
Ammunition orders and gun sales
Credit card numbers logged (remembering the new RFID-chipped cards)
Still feeling comfy?
Why wouldn't I feel comfy today? The fucks in power haven't achieved what they want, and they will not achieve what they want in the future. But today, we live as kings did 1000 years ago. The question is, how comfy are we going to be tomorrow? Brah.
If we can get these damn sheeple to use the bitcoin we'll have total domination!
Bitcoin is for morons who believe the net is more powerful than an off-switch. Pull the rod out of your head, exit the matrix, and take a look at the real world
But people don't act in ways that can be predetermined, even by the one acting. So there'd BE nothing to 'precapture'. Unknowable variables affect our behaviors.
People often do contemplate an action, even fantasize about doing it, but either won't or change their minds at the last minute and decide NOT to do it.
So...how would that moral conundrum be handled? If we DO have prethoughts that can be read with accuracy, it would imply predestination of events, and negate the whole idea of criminal guilt for them.
This article perpetuates the fiction that the powers-that-be give two hoots about crime, or seek to stamp it out rather than exploit it.
As a longtime ZH reader who's had a hell of a time getting his email address vetted for an account on the ZH Commentariat, it pleases me to no end to be able to post here for the first time. I've been working off and on on a series of stories exploring the 'spirit' behind the police state, and the tack I've taken is to embody that spirit as a malevolent artificial intelligence unit installed in a police prowler.
His name? Reich Rider.
https://thelongsiege.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/introducing-reich-rider-the-prototype/
The reality was proved by the Anderson treaty, which stated that if there were 5 people in a room, one was guilty of committing a crime, you just have to have the prowess to determine which one it is.
Kids just finished a game of basketball with his friends and realised that he is late for dinner.... the system scans his elevated body temperature and raised heart beat plus sensense his angst (his mom is going to chew his ass out for being late).... the system's alarms are tripped by all these readings and the fun begins
AI: the last technological development of homo sapiens
http://www.techworld.com/news/operating-systems/ai-guru-nick-bostrom-sup...
JADE2 (Jade Helm 2015 US domestic rollout of Network Centric Total Information Awareness and NetworkCentric Warefare?)
http://level9news.com/
See the two embedded clips here with the orange CtM logo. Both have players in them.
http://caravantomidnight.com/caravan-to-midnight-episode-309-dj/
http://caravantomidnight.com/caravan-to-midnight-episode-326-dj/
@1:35 smart dust/nano receiver/processor chip in:
The Secret Break Away Civilization You're Not Supposed To Know About
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIslNwtz4EY
For a snapshot of the infrastructure to achieve that see Technocracy Rising - Patrick Wood, and Jade2 AI Internet of everything. It's apparently being trialed now under title Jade Helm 2015:
http://caravantomidnight.com/caravan-to-midnight-episode-363-patrick-woo...
@1:35 smart dust/nano receiver/processor chip in:
The Secret Break Away Civilization You're Not Supposed To Know About
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIslNwtz4EY
Aliens can drive and crash drunk just like anyone else!
did you mean Aliens or Asians?
Pre-crime goes back MUCH further than than, to the dawn of Man.
Its detectors are something called Parents. They typically know when when their offspring is about to do something most of the time. This seems obvious to TAALR, but not so obvious to you humans, it seems.
Precrime is NOT a new concept. For example, segregation, and hundreds of countries expelling Jews. Just sayin'!
Yup.
And the boldface type in the original post should read ".... prevent NON-SANCTIONED crime.... "
p.s. fuck you Blankfein
I'm not too worried, so far the only crime that Microsoft software can accurately predict is a blue screen of death.
Since when?
Lets go back to the 70's & 80's and dance, laugh and groove to the beautiful music again. Fuck this crazy world now ...
I'd pick the Wild West, America's founding or ancient Greece. My favorite movies are Tombstone, Last of the Mohicans (Daniel Day Lewis version) and 300.
The Big Brother future sucks no matter how many toys we have. It's a future for sheep, for cattle, for neoserfs.
We can't go back to the past but all it takes is a big coronal mass ejection to put us into simpler times.
Do not worry. In time humans will fuck things up and will go back a lot further in time than that.
As Einstein said "I don't know what weapons WW3 will be fought with, but WW4 will be fought will sticks and stores" (not a direct quote)
Happened to catch some of the movie version a few days ago and was amazed by how many of their predictions were already obsolete, such as small clear discs holding video clips of his dead son, large glass drives inserted into screens to upload files, etc. Only 13 years ago, but so much has changed.
Dumb news: Hillary vs pumpkin spice, ‘man bun’ dangershttp://tinyurl.com/pv5etfz
Get a encrypted vpn not so much.
Like Orwell, Dick died young.
Two Great Visionary men. RIP
"...one fish asks another fish "how's the water?" The other fish replies, "what the hell is water?" ~ David Foster Wallace
they will never turn it on....
we be without politicians, banksters and ekonomists.... in a flash
nor lawyers....
Since world war 2 we've had Nazi scientists and Pentagon black ops vaporize trillions on God only knows what,worldwide mind control-a death star who knows,but there will still be plenty to sell their soul 'ás long as its not happening to them'.What could be a spanner in the works though is the oil,electricity and ammunition to power whatever toys are out there all take money to purchase and tptb are just about bankrupt.
OK - fine - fuck em.
The government won't be that effective in 40 years.
People really have no idea just how weak "the government" actually is.
the primary function of government is to pretend to fail,they are stronger than you think.
There seems to be this illusion that all or most of the people are anti-government and willing to do something about it. There are lots of muppets...who like being muppets. Add to those whose basic idea is "It's not my problem/better to lay low." and you have a docile population that will endure most anything.
Assume the government knows everything... but don't be surprised when they don't
That is why I always wear my Groucho Marx eyebrow-glasses-big nose-moustache face scan proof disguise while in public.
Geez.. you don't know, what your govt are doing??
https://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2008/09/precrime-de...
the data mining is good and only getting better thnks to the cheapness of storing massive amounts of data
im moving out of this country or moving toward the country where it's VERY white (Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, etc)
Anyone who has worked with large data-sets knows how much garbage they contain.
But I guess if the War on Drugs is forced to come to an end the Internal Security Industrial Complex will need a new reason to suck up trillions in spending.
Will citizens be forced to prepay for their stay in precrime detention centers with pretax?
If citizens predetain themselves is that an admission of precrime?
Will there have to be a Department of Prejustice established for the prosecution of precriminal activity?
Any healthy cogitating species would have expunged from itself any presupposing mental premasturbators a long time ago.
heheeh, yea this is true
but it's the meta-data that is effective at trracking people.
and when there is so much of it..it becomes VERY significant
The Freedumb Fighters @ Scooby Labs® have tested the solution and it works.
We have developed a virus that sends out False Positives. It affects any hardware that has a tcp/ip stack. We've even been successful infecting Blue Origin's New Shepard which had precrime thinking the astronauts were about to launch a low orbital nuclear attack against israel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUdG0RYd6jk
This precrime thing would be brilliant if they could actually scan embryos for potential politicians, bankers etc and then ABORT.
Don't forget cheesepope DNA!
This shit plus the rise of the regulatory state, with "regulatory" meaning all of life depresses the shit out of me.
WHY is "precrime" a problem? Well certainly, because every human being on the Planet is imperfect. We have prabably all thought about breaking some law, at one time or another. So if they start arresting us for Bad Intentions, then kiss your freedom goodbye.
The whole concept behind crime and punishment, UP UNTIL NOW, is that we don't arrest anyone until they have done something wrong. Crime must be based on a REAL ACTION.
This notion broke down with the arrival of the War On Terrorism, when suddenly the Government found a mandate to stop "the unthinkable crime" from happening.
And freedom is DEAD.
Excellent point, Primal. I like when someone shares something I had not thought of.
I will add an observation of my own, as well. The modern leftist is a simpleton with a simple argument. Take any problems in life and nature and point the government gun at it. It does not matter whether it is poverty, education, workplace accidents, food handling, energy, the underwater ecosystem of Tasmania or even the temperature of the earth. Simply announce the problems and immediately indicate the need of another governmental program, a new bureacracy, "funding" and a policing force. Each problem will plant a new and eternrally underfunded government program that needs more rules.
The end is infinite rules and half the population hired to control the other half...for our own good, of course.
Scooby can't wait for the TeeVee show where a sexy FBI agent will report all the potential precriminals in your area and what they might be willing to do in the very near future.
That'll fill the pockets of a few Spielberg's!
My personal favorite straw man phrase is "What do you have to hide?"
A simple reply is "Do you have curtains or blinds in your home? Yes? What do you have to hide?"
I am with you, Vandal. I hate all the muppet excuses and rationalizations. In any future revolution, if the good guys (libertarians) win those betas get exiled to Syria.
How do you punish precrime? With pretaliation!
This "pre-crime" hysteria seems frightening.
What I do not get is this: Who needs it??
Seriously. Are there barriers stopping extra-judicial justice now where you live??
This all sounds like a total gag to prepare the sheeple for sham-psychoto-science sold as valid legal procedure. Get the sheeple to believe in "pre-crime" tech and trumped charges becomes accepted practice.
Manufacturing Consent is standard operating procedure, and always has been. Stalin did the same thing, and so did Hitler, George Bush, et cetera. Orwell explained why, and the French Revolution, and Karl Marx, gave us the way out.
When your watching everybody, your watching nobody
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Being like everybody is the same as being nobody.
Hunger Games? Les Miserables?
The masses are suppressed by the Oligarchies in order to insure power and enrich themselves. Never ends well, and won;t this time. "When the beating of the heart matches the beating of the drum."
History repeats because those that have taken never want to admit their wrongs and give back, and those that have been taken from eventually rise up and take what has been taken back.
The Oligarchy has already been dismantled, and the state actors will turn their weapons on their colleagues in the state, and the oligarchy, soon enough. It is but a matter of time before they collectively implode so there is no real need to be frightened of their inabilities, or weapons.
What you should be concerned about is their collective ignorance, and levels of imbecility.
yup..WWIII and nukes coming sooN!!
to prevent pre crime all currency must be digital..so now you know only those in control of the digits (central banks) will be able to commit crimes, but they will make up for that with extraordinary crimes serfdom for most.
Guilty before proven guilty, just skip innocent. Sounds like like a tyrranical government to me. Time for a reset!
Just turn the computers 'off' and get the fuck away from the cities.
Neil Young had it right when he 'burned his credit card for fuel, headed out to where the pavement turns to sand'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t00MXZKbW0M
As long as they speak your name, you continue. As long as they talk about you, you ain't dead.
Narrator: You walk into this room at your own risk, because it leads to the future, not a future that will be but one that might be. This is not a new world, it is simply an extension of what began in the old one. It has patterned itself after every dictator who has ever planted the ripping imprint of a boot on the pages of history since the beginning of time. It has refinements, technological advances, and a more sophisticated approach to the destruction of human freedom. But like every one of the super-states that preceded it, it has one iron rule: logic is an enemy and truth is a menace. - This is Mr. Romney Wordsworth, in his last forty-eight hours on Earth. He's a citizen of the State but will soon have to be eliminated, because he's built out of flesh and because he has a mind. Mr. Romney Wordsworth, who will draw his last breaths - in The Twilight Zone.
Chancellor: You have no function, Mr. Wordsworth, you're an anachronism, like a ghost from another time.
Romney Wordsworth: I am nothing more than a reminder to you that you cannot destroy truth by burning pages!
Chancellor: You are nothing but spindly limbs and a dream and the State has no use for your kind!
I wish I could hear Bob Chapman right now. God rest his soul. He was always so positive.
"We got them'"
"We're breathing down their necks."
Love ya Bob!
Precrime? hell they can't take care of all the repeat criminals.. give me a break..
I always say if they prosecuted more of the white collar criminals there wouldn't be so many Blue collar ones..
"The concept of humanity being managed and enslaved by an elite technocratic society is no longer a future vision. The network centric global Artificial Intelligence system for human command and control is here..." http://www.level9news.com/
http://www.nj.com/camden/index.ssf/2015/09/police_seek_suspicious_men_ph...
Hey ! That scared the HELL outta me !! That guy had a CAMERA !! A CAMERA !!! Obviously another Nazi-terrorist-killer-cop stalking child molester human scum.
Hard to look at but it must be done by all. Scary I tell you.
I can't believe anyone would drive a car without a dash-cam. For one or 2 hundred bucks you can catch cops in lies and persons using you and your car for insurance fraud. The list goes on and on.
Simplest way to stop the most crimes before they happen doesn't require a computer: just put all blacks in jail.
those are small crimes....aren't many blacks operating the world's mega banks
Simon Cowell just told us his death date of 98. Let's see how accurate the computer is. Car accident, hit by the Obama bus, market collapse and jumps to his death from his home dwelling?
Time will tell on voodoo predictions. Wait until the programmer's have ill thought idea's. Then the obvious game theory plan will be exposed. We have watched this movie before.
The Century of the Selfhttp://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-century-of-the-self/
I like the Clinton flick. Medical fraud has been busted again. What patsy goes to prison as the shell game continues?
Excellent videos! +1000.
Aww fuck, we goitta put up with his vile limey shit for another 45-50 years??
The systems described sound scary in print. But the reality is that such a system would require investments of time and resources, including manpower, that we simply do not have and would not spend if we did.
We can't even manage basic websites at the government level. And for all the NSA's data collection, they have never been able to properly collect, assess and act on anything of importance. The few so-called 'hits' they claim are nothing a fairly competent teenaged computer geek couldn't have gotten, and it would have cost the taxpayers the price of a couple of kegs and an arranged date with Taylor Swift.
If we were functioning at any level of efficiency now, I might think it remotely possible. But we aren't, and we seem about to collapse. Everything is falling apart and going to shit. Trade is collapsing, and nationalism means the dismantling of the global NWO.
But really it is our basic nature that makes this impossible. We don't operate well as a species at the higher densities and greater numbers needed to make a Super-State like this work.
We have reached the current levels of advancement because we reached the higher densities necessary for it to occur. And we can't even stand THIS much, look around, we are killing each other already and we're at over 7 billion and the mounted- cameras-on-public-buildings or hidden-in-devices stage of monitoring. What happens when we're at 9 billion, and everyone is in your face all the time?
Society would implode long before anything like Minority Report could be achieved, and we'd kill each other down to a level where most of it could never even be built.
Reminds of the saying, "The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is it's inefficiency."
Government is terrible at services because they don't give a shit (contrary to leftists) and government does not have to make anyone happy. That's why it is okay if the DMV is a miserable dirty un-air conditioned, crowded place with cranky clerks who go on break when your number comes up, usually 666. You HAVE to go there.
However, government is usually very good at things that strengthen and defend government like police agencies. They will rapdily get good at this stuff. Remember, it is almost all developed by private contractors who make a killing on the price. Government will pay most any price.
Shit like this may work during peacetime under normal conditions.
In a combat situation or SHTF situation, it all flies out the window.
Anbody got the email address of the head of MI6 who was on the news recently trying to downplay this capability because I want to call him a liar.
In the above social context the only ones committing a crime will be the police (tick) and exempted TBTF elites (tick). No different to what we have now.
In such a society requiring fear to function do not be a police officer because you will be the exempted elites scapegoat and the only one who can easily be accused of a crime.
" trying to guess what a user is thinking "
My God they are going to detect a lot of Porn.
Oh, and London opens down 1% and some idiot thinks Glencore a good buy.
Now THAT'S Pre-Crime
So what's up with those Google barges these days?
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Thats a great objective : prevent crime before it happens.
There is only one problem : our civilization is based on individual's free will.
Western democracy and nation state is a bottom up process.
And the Elected are supposed to represent the Republic's interest, not their own. According to written constitutions and laws that define values and trade-offs between individual rights and collective well being; aka the fabric of society.
So all top down power constructs, although they be essential to good governance "of, by and for the people", must serve that purpose. Not create an ivory tower world that serves those inside its confines who define what is right and wrong and keep the electors out of the dialogue.
That is the Bastille state. If those in power have no downside, if they deem themselves as above the Law, if their acts cannot be judged by independent regulators then we are in despotism.
So Top down has to be answerable, open loop, transparent system, that makes exercise of power an accountable process regulated by independent judges. Separation of power and powerful 4th estate (media and ONG whistle blowers).
If the top down matrix creates a Cyborg type artificial intelligence network where knowledge systems GUIDE the individual to USE his free will to reconcile individual and collective ambitions in such a way so as to AVOID crime and conflict of interest; thats fine. We call that EDUCATION and the KNOWLEDGE meme.
But it irrigates the minds of the individual to make him a better man; something that religion was supposed to do but failed (as the historical time line as well current events amply prove); and LEAVES the CHOICES of action to the individual, then thats a good system.
If it SHORT CIRCUITS individual free will and makes him a slave to CYBORG and those who CREATE him; aka the Oligarchs running the artificial intelligence algos governing the world and their crony political legislators; then we enter Brave New World or Minority Report syndromes. All power then resides with a self serving minority.
Means and Ends. THe eternal debate of dialectical, rational Man.
Its up to the PEOPLE to make sure the checks and balances work.
Currently, the dominant empire is governing a world without any popular input to IMPOSE restraints on those in POWER.
“all-seeing, all-knowing, and all-powerful” ROFL.
I doubt that the TBTF and TBTJ are very worried about it.
Precrime is tested already around the globe, thats just propaganda to say 40 years from now. The leader already know everything they want and go already after all kinds of peasents.
They just read tomorrows paper like Biff. How do you think they know which horse to bet?
BYTE MY BAITED HOOK YOU FUCKING SHEEPLE!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymjO2KawVSM
Why am I not surprised one jot that two of the usual suspects are up to their necks in this ever-expanding police-state surveillance that's being developed?
I am of course referring to Microsoft and Google.
smaker, you might add facebook ..
The ZUCK is a key member of The Deep State, for the moment. If and when Facebook takes a hard dive, then THE ZUCK will be picking soda cans from the gutter like he was born to. Till then, he's using his juvenile genius to enslave all mankind.
Indeed, I believe you are right as "fightapathy" also rightly says.
I remember taking a test to see what I should do as a job when I got old enough to be a taxed slave and it came back saying I should dig ditches. But as it turns out I didn't dig many ditches (only as a hobby), I only wanted to dig ditches. Funny huh?
or was it drive a school bus? Anyway, I'm now a weathy miser, I own a mansion and a yacht.
So, what happens when everyone knows everything about everyone? It will happen sooner or later, no matter how hard people/governments try to protect it. Then what? The whole thing just seems so futile to me. Keep giving people reasons to break laws, or new laws to break and they will break the law, plain and simple. Can we really not see the big picture here, I guess we are too self-absorbed to do that. Oh well, I guess we are our own worst enemy after all, so sad.
I wonder if pre-crime detection works on our domestic negros and the third world orcs that are streaming in?
"In other words, the government’s goal is to prevent crimes before they happen: precrime."
BULLSHIT!!!! The government's goal is to prevent exposure of its corrupt and criminal practices by ruthlessly crushing opposition long before it can gather and strike!
I like that story - tells a lot about current society and reasonably predicts where we on earth are headed. Another set of books I always liked was the Asteroid Rosinante trilogy, by Gilliland. It is a bit dated now because it assumed Japan would take over global business, but its description of the NAU, water and climate wars, and CIA skullduggery was on the mark. Oh, and it predicted outlawing the US flag and installing "political officers" in all military units.
We're on our way!