Google Teams Up With CIA to Fund "Recorded Future" Startup Monitoring Public Is Pre-Cognition Possible & Can It Beat Twitter on Breaking News? Recorded Future is a startup technology company that described itself as a "temporal analytics engine.
" It tries to uncover and analyze very faint signals, basically in order to predict the future. It's backed by Google Ventures and the data-loving VC firm IA Ventures. Recorded Future - Temporal & Predictive Analytics Engine, Media Analytics & News Analysis. Media Analytics Applications & News Analytics Tools - Recorded Future. Intro to Recorded Future The Future of Social Networking is the Surveillance State. Ogle, CIA Invest in 'Future' of Web Monitoring. The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.
The company is called Recorded Future, and it scours tens of thousands of websites, blogs and Twitter accounts to find the relationships between people, organizations, actions and incidents — both present and still-to-come. In a white paper, the company says its temporal analytics engine "goes beyond search" by "looking at the 'invisible links' between documents that talk about the same, or related, entities and events. " The idea is to figure out for each incident who was involved, where it happened and when it might go down. Recorded Future then plots that chatter, showing online "momentum" for any given event.
"The cool thing is, you can actually predict the curve, in many cases," says company CEO Christopher Ahlberg, a former Swedish Army Ranger with a PhD in computer science. » Google and CIA Plough Millions Into Huge ‘Recorded Future’ Monitoring Project Alex Jones. Steve WatsonPrisonplanet.com Thursday, Jul 29th, 2010 Google’s cosy relationship with the U.S. spy network has once again been thrust into the spotlight as the company is reported to have jointly invested with the CIA in an Internet monitoring project that scours Twitter accounts, blogs and websites for all sorts of information, and can also “predict the future”.
The Nature of (Pre)News and Event Detection « Recorded Future Blog. Homeland Security moves forward with ‘pre-crime’ detection. Data-Crunching Program Guides Santa Cruz Police Before a Crime. Fresno, Bakersfield, San Luis Obispo, Merced, Madera - California. Twitter data can predict the future for brands and markets. The Web Bot Project and 2012. Maybe some of you have heard of The Web Bot Project, but for those of you who have not, it's quite intriguing.
The web bot project, developed in the late 1990's, was created to assist in making stock market predictions. The technology uses a system of spiders to crawl the Internet and search for keywords, much like a search engine does. When a keyword is located, the web bot takes a snapshot of the text preceding and following the keyword. This snapshot of text is sent to a central location where it is then filtered to define meaning. The web bot project's concept is aimed at tapping into the collective unconscious of the universe and it's inhabitants.
You see, this goes a bit deeper than simply viewing what those of us on the Internet are saying. In 2001, the web bot operators began to notice that stock market predictions were not the only matters being accurately predicted by the web bot and they began to take notice of the coincidence with occurrences and explored it further. Big deal? Consciousness, group consciousness, mind. Homeland Security moves forward with 'pre-crime' detection. An internal U.S.
Department of Homeland Security document indicates that a controversial program designed to predict whether a person will commit a crime is already being tested on some members of the public voluntarily, CNET has learned. If this sounds a bit like the Tom Cruise movie called "Minority Report," or the CBS drama " Person of Interest ," it is. But where "Minority Report" author Philip K. Dick enlisted psychics to predict crimes, DHS is betting on algorithms: it's building a "prototype screening facility" that it hopes will use factors such as ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate to "detect cues indicative of mal-intent. " The latest developments, which reveal efforts to "collect, process, or retain information on" members of "the public," came to light through an internal DHS document obtained under open-government laws by the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
A field test of FAST has been conducted in at least one undisclosed location in the northeast. Supercomputer predicts revolution. 9 September 2011Last updated at 15:57 Sentiment mining showed a sharp change in tone around Egypt ahead of President Mubarak's ousting Feeding a supercomputer with news stories could help predict major world events, according to US research.
A study, based on millions of articles, charted deteriorating national sentiment ahead of the recent revolutions in Libya and Egypt. While the analysis was carried out retrospectively, scientists say the same processes could be used to anticipate upcoming conflict. The system also picked up early clues about Osama Bin Laden's location. Predictive policing: Don’t even think about it. Police forecast crimes using earthquake prediction models. The police department of Santa Cruz, California is trying to get to the scene of a crime before the criminals do.
The police are using an algorithm that analyses past crime statistics to determine hot spots in the city. What if police could predict property crimes with the same accuracy the Weather Channel can predict whether or not a storm will pass? The Santa Cruz Police Department isn't exactly the Precrime unit from the 2002 film Minority Report, but it uses models normally used for predicting aftershocks from earthquakes, to predict when and where crimes are likely to occur, The New York Times reports. Car and home burglaries and car thefts are all types of crimes that can be anticipated with the algorithm. Google Teams Up with CIA to Fund "Recorded Future" Startup Monitoring Websites, Blogs & Twitter Accounts. Recorded Future Knows Tomorrow - Already. I began reviewing Recorded Future as a PR tool – a mere resource to get news material for Everything PR.
It soon became clear that Recorded Future was much, much more. Recorded Future Terrorism Analysis