The Pentagon Wants TiVo (to Watch You)
March 7th, 2007Via: Wired:
Reuters yesterday reported on a recently issued study on future technologies written by the Pentagon’s Defense Science Board. More than anything, it seems these outside advisers want a surveillance system that would put Big Brother to shame, and they’re looking at the commercial sector to provide it:
William Schneider, the board’s chairman, said a key finding was a need to track individuals, objects and activities — much smaller targets than the Cold War’s regiments, battalions and naval battle groups.
“It’s really an appeal to capture and put into military systems the know-how that’s already available in the market place,” Schneider said in a telephone interview.
So, after reviewing the available technology, what specific types of things do they suggest the military needs? Well, one example, is the Pentagon wants TiVo, according the report (available as a PDF here):
To counter these new threats, technology exists, or could be developed, to provide new levels of spatial, temporal, and spectral resolution and diversity. Furthermore, the ability to record terabyte and larger databases will provide an omnipresent knowledge of the present and the past that can be used to rewind battle space observations in TiVo-like fashion and to run recorded time backwards to help identify and locate even low-level enemy forces. For example, after a car bomb detonates, one would have the ability to play high-resolution data backward in time to follows the vehicle back to the source, and then use that knowledge to focus collection and gain additional information by organizing and searching through archived data.
While I am interviewing for Jobs in Wellington, NZ, I am also hallucinating that the US could return to Ron Paul’s “FREEDOM PRINCIPLES”:
“Congressman Paul is a staunch advocate of asset based currencies and he shares these views regularly with his constituents in Washington D.C. The Congressman is on record as stating that he believes in the following “FREEDOM PRINCIPLES”:
* Rights belong to individuals, not groups
* Property should be owned by people, not government
* All voluntary associations should be permissible – economic and social.
* The government’s monetary role is to maintain the integrity of the monetary unit, not participate in fraud.
* Government exists to protect liberty , not to redistribute wealth or to grant special privileges.
* The lives and actions of people are their own responsibility, not the government’s.
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Carbombs have played such an abstract role in defense economy, and now they can directly benefit contractors!
I guess they are hedging their bets that carbombs will become more and more popular in the coming years. Hey not a bad strategy.
And if carbombs start to decline, you can pick out one of those juicy middleeastern nations to bomb the fuck out of them. That’ll get them going again.