Topic awaiting preservation: next step towards ultimate control of the masses

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.

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).]

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.

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.

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

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

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.