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asptamer
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: The Lair
Insane since: Apr 2003

posted posted 06-04-2003 07:50

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/06/03/pentagon.superdiary.ap/index.html

its kinda scary, if u think about what applications this thing might have in say, 50 years.

Taobaybee
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: The Pool Of Life
Insane since: Feb 2003

posted posted 06-04-2003 10:56

I'm Sorry, but I found it difficult to get past the paragraph containing:
"DARPA's research has changed lives far beyond the U.S. military before; it developed what became the Internet,,,,"
I thought it was Timothy Berners-Lee who had been accorded "the inventor of the internet" by the scientific community? Mayhaps I'm wrong, but it made reading the rest of the article too distracting for my unquiet mind.
[is it too early for one of those black pills nursey]?



[This message has been edited by Taobaybee (edited 06-04-2003).]

briggl
Bipolar (III) Inmate

From: Here, There and Everywhere
Insane since: Sep 2000

posted posted 06-04-2003 14:30

A popular misconception, Taobaybee

A defense organization, DARPA, created the Internet. They were quickly joined (and maybe assisted) by many large educational organizations.

Timothy Berners-Lee, many years later, created what we know as the World-Wide Web, which uses the Internet as a transportation mechanism.

Tyberius Prime
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist with Finglongers

From: Germany
Insane since: Sep 2001

posted posted 06-04-2003 17:30

not to bad, until only your 'lifelog' will be accepted in court. Then it will be time to start burning yourself on the street in signs of civic protest again.

bodhi23
Paranoid (IV) Inmate

From: Greensboro, NC USA
Insane since: Jun 2002

posted posted 06-04-2003 19:25

Big Brother indeed! That's just too frightening to comprehend. I can see some positive implications there - such as monitoring convicted criminals on probation or things of that nature... but too many ways such technology could be used against the general public...

*shudder*

Bodhi - Cell 617

Bugimus
Maniac (V) Mad Scientist

From: New California
Insane since: Mar 2000

posted posted 06-04-2003 19:54

Like with any other progress, there are growing pains. This will happen eventually as we become more and more integrated with machine enhancements. I expect we will be very much like the Borg a few hundred years from now... sans the ugly external wiring and lack of individuality

All the fights, problems, and adjustments along the way will be expected.

. . : slicePuzzle

Taobaybee
Maniac (V) Inmate

From: The Pool Of Life
Insane since: Feb 2003

posted posted 06-04-2003 23:04

Thanks for putting me straight on that briggl. Now I have read and inwardly digested the above link Asptamer, it is a bit scarey isn't it?
Perhaps the same ingenuity that invents such monitoring devices, will devise ways of "getting around" it too.

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