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Bruce Sterling On Total Information Awareness

Posted by timothy on from the seeing-the-future-and-walking-backward dept.

securitas writes "Declan McCullagh interviews Bruce Sterling about Total Information Awareness (renamed Terrorist Information Awareness and raising concerns) or 'Poindexter's nutty scheme' as Sterling thinks of it. He predicts TIA will destabilize the government and lead to internal KGB-style coups. Whether you agree with him or not it makes for thought-provoking reading."

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  1. Slashdot Humor by Scoria · · Score: 5, Funny

    internal KGB-style coups

    In Soviet Russia... oh, forget it.

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  2. And of course by Nexzus · · Score: 5, Funny
    What would Total Information Awareness run on?

    Total Information Technology.
    (with apologies to Robin Williams)

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  3. Weeeee'll meet agaaain... by kurosawdust · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm all for public involvement in the political process, but I guess the best we can hope for now is that this somehow leads to Slim Pickens riding a descending hydrogen bomb...

  4. relieving by falsification · · Score: 4, Funny

    He predicts TIA will destabilize the government and lead to internal KGB-style coups. Boy, it's a good thing that Bruce Sterling is not paranoid or anything. Otherwise, he'd come up with some really whacky theories.

  5. Re:The USA is over as we knew it. by ceejayoz · · Score: 5, Funny

    We have emarked full tilt into the arena of socialism.

    Oh? My health insurance is still as expensive as fuck, and my college tuitition is $36,000 a year and rising. Those are pretty bad indicators of a "socialist state" forming...

    What part of "the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" do you not understand?

    What part of "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state" do you not understand?

  6. Ministry of Silly Walks by Esion+Modnar · · Score: 5, Funny
    The aim is to collect information ranging from financial and medical records to data on the way individuals walk.

    You heard it here first. Poindexter and TIA is the Ministry of Silly Walks.

    (And I'm supposed to feel better because they changed "total" to "terrorist"? That's just insulting to everyone's intelligence... grrr.)

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