I got a number of laughs from this piece, along with more sorrow- and worry-aligned emotions. I think the history you enumerate would not have evolved the way it did without the imprint of a Total Information Awareness approach to mining data in the wake of 9/11 and the surveillance economy the Global War on Terror spawned. I have wondered more than once if TIA kinda sorta became FB and/or Google.
I got a number of laughs from this piece, along with more sorrow- and worry-aligned emotions. I think the history you enumerate would not have evolved the way it did without the imprint of a Total Information Awareness approach to mining data in the wake of 9/11 and the surveillance economy the Global War on Terror spawned. I have wondered more than once if TIA kinda sorta became FB and/or Google.