Joel Thomas
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first heard Jun 2026
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They just
Handed us a GPS sensor with our phones now, with smartphones.
They figured out a way around that that we would just willingly take a GPS sensor with us.
And it was to find, and I love the way they say this, meaningful patterns in the timeline to infer the user's routines, habits, and relationships with other people, organizations, places, and objects, and to exploit these patterns.
to ease its task.
So basically, hey, make life easier for you is what we're gonna do.
But I think it was too early for when they were trying to push it, right?
Because it was early 2000s and
they were already talking about this real co controversial
uh predictive policing program called total information awareness, which was also coming off the back of 9-11.
And it was being used, as they said, to analyze and identify patterns associated with terrorism.
So they were it was a massive governmental data mining program and it was used to ping
Everyone's activities, and then it was going to decipher whether or not that person was a terrorist or not.
It plays right into what I think we're moving into with like minority report and how they're going to be able to say, Well, we know you're gonna do this, so we're just going to arrest you now.
And it was kind of one of the earliest ones.
And DARPA got a lot of heat for that, but right around that time, they're pushing lifelog as well.
And people just really weren't
having it and it got squelched.
And it really wasn't going to be.
what they wanted it to be, however.
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