Joel Thomas
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first heard Jun 2026
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Yeah.
It started moving into a different sector.
And that different sector ended up being Facebook because the day, February 4th, 2004, that the Pentagon killed the Lifelog Project was the exact day that Facebook started up.
And I'm sure you've heard about this too.
But and the ACLU was big in pushing.
the original lifelog to not come in fruition because they were putting this out into the American zeitgeist and people were just really not having it.
Not only that though too, I mean it didn't help.
That DARPA, as a part of the whole TIA program, they put out a logo.
And I don't know if you ever saw the logo they put out was the all-seeing eye on a pyramid and it was illuminating the earth and it and it said knowledge is his power.
That's like the craziest thing ever.
And that really set people off.
But I almost wonder if that was a distraction because.
Because people weren't paying attention to what was going on with this whole Facebook thing.
And there was a David Carger, and he was a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory for the depart department at MIT.
He came out right when they squelched the whole lifelog thing and he said, I'm sure that such research will continue to be funded under some other title.
So he
already knew that they were gonna it was too much money.
We're talking about DARPA, who at the time was receiving around $3 billion a year for these projects.
They had put a lot of time and energy into LifeLog.
And for it not to come to fruition,
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