SENTIENT WORLD SIMULATION (SWS)
In today's world, human beings have become nothing more than
moving bits of data. We have become so tied to, and so dependent on, our
electronic gadgets (smart phones, Fitbits, e-watches, or anything that uses wifi)
that the only way we might ever be able to keep ourselves completely off the
grid and untraceable would be to pay in cash and avoid electronics altogether. But from the looks of
things, that's not going to happen any time soon…unless, of course, we're hit by
an EMP or some other catastrophic event.
There is now a type of computer program that goes by SWS: Sentient World Simulation (began under SEAS: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations). This program, originally designed by Purdue University, is "a continually running, continually updating mirror model of the 'real world' that can be used to predict and evaluate future events and courses of action."
There is now a type of computer program that goes by SWS: Sentient World Simulation (began under SEAS: Synthetic Environment for Analysis and Simulations). This program, originally designed by Purdue University, is "a continually running, continually updating mirror model of the 'real world' that can be used to predict and evaluate future events and courses of action."
In layman's terms, any time you use social media or your credit
card, or make a phone call or send an email, all of the electronic data
surrounding that transaction is collected and stored inside gigantic servers. Various
algorithms are used to disseminate and calculate the acquired information,
which is added to all of the information gathered from everything else that everyone
else on the planet is using as well. From this information, an electronic
mirror image of the planet is created. This program can then do things like
"forecast" future events using the algorithms built into its
predictability software, in order to "predict" and stop terrorist
events (or so it claims).
Remember the movie "Minority Report" with Tom Cruise, who was a cop in the "Pre-Crime" division? Yeah, like that. But without the strange, water-bound human "pre-cogs." But hey, the algorithms already in place are very close to giving us this! (as if advertising wasn't already intrusive enough)
Predicting and finding potential terrorist attacks sounds really great, and seems like something that would be very useful, but like all forms of electronic wizardry, there's a downside as well: the program can also be used for something as subtle as tracking you while you simply walk down the street (if you happen to have your phone or a Fitbit with you). So remember this little ditty:
Remember the movie "Minority Report" with Tom Cruise, who was a cop in the "Pre-Crime" division? Yeah, like that. But without the strange, water-bound human "pre-cogs." But hey, the algorithms already in place are very close to giving us this! (as if advertising wasn't already intrusive enough)
Predicting and finding potential terrorist attacks sounds really great, and seems like something that would be very useful, but like all forms of electronic wizardry, there's a downside as well: the program can also be used for something as subtle as tracking you while you simply walk down the street (if you happen to have your phone or a Fitbit with you). So remember this little ditty:
Real Eyes.
Realize.
Real Lies.
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