Who Owns The Future?
I've been reading Crossing the Rubicon a bit. A damn heavy book. Lots of facts. Lots and lots and lots. Mindshaking facts. Like the fact that Americans had already a few decades ago a piece of software called PROMIS or Prosecutor's Management Information System. A spying system based on artificial intelligence would be a short description. You see, PROMIS has a backdoor (for the clueless: a means of accessing the program by a third party without the consent or knowing of the owner). From page 153: "It was able to simultaneously read and integrate any number of different computer programs or databases simultaneously, regardless of the language in which the original programs had been written or the operating system or platforms on which that database was then currently installed." From the same page: "In the mid 1970s, at least as far as computer programs were concerned, the 'universal translator' of Star Trek had become a reality."Just consider the following couple of paragraphs from the page 166.
On August 28 the phone rang and it was a collect call from Tyree. "Get a tape recorder and turn it on," he said. Over the course of the next half an hour Tyree, obviously reading from detailed and copious notes, named individuals and companies dealing with PROMIS software and its progeny. The tape was specific down to naming specific engineers in military and private corporations doing PROMIS research. Tyree described specific Congressional committees that had been infiltrated with "enhanced" PROMIS. Tyree described how PROMIS progeny, having inspired four new computer languages, had made possible the positioning of satellites so far out in space that they were untouchable. At the same time the progeny had improved video quality to the point where the same satellite could focus on a single human hair. The ultimate big picture.
PROMIS progeny had also evolved to the point where neural pads could be attached to plugs in the back of the human head and thought could be translated into electrical impulses that would be equally capable of flying a plane or wire transferring money. Names like Sandia, Cal-Tech, Micron, Tech University of Graz, Oded Leventer, and Massimo Grimaldi rolled from his lips as he tore through the pages of notes. Data, such as satellite reconnaissance, could also now be downloaded from a satellite directly into a human brain. The evolution of the artificial intelligence had progressed to a point where animal behavior and thought were being decoded. Mechanical humans were being tested. Animals were being controlled by computer.
There's also a mention of chips that can work even when the computer is unpowered so the data can be transmitted even when you think that's impossible. There is also mention of the e-book The Last Circle describing CIA drug trafficking, as far as I know. Too much stuff everywhere; looks like the USA government has some damn ugly dirty hands. So ugly the dirt is popping out through the sieves of the gloves. Isn't it odd this machinery is still active?
posted by AlesS @ 4/06/2005 10:25:00 PM
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