-IARPA’s Office of Smart Collection.

Government Computer News: The research organization for U.S. intelligence agencies is looking to fund projects designed to yield revolutionary innovations in intelligence collection. That organization, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA), has asked industry and academia through a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)  to propose research that dramatically improves the value of collected data. IARPA [...]

-ObamaCo. proposes ‘Identity ecosystem’ to replace passwords.

Obama doesn’t want us to have to hassle around having to log into sites and services we use, fumbling around with passwords and online ‘handles’. Instead he wants to build an “Identity Ecosystem” where our personal identities are tied to every single device we use, right down to the flash memory chips we plug into [...]

-FCC asked to monitor “hate speech,” “misinformation” online.

ars technica: Over thirty organizations want the Federal Communications Commission to open up a probe on “hate speech” and “misinformation” in media. “Hate has developed as a profit-model for syndicated radio and cable television programs masquerading as ‘news’,” they wrote to the FCC earlier this month. As for the Internet, it “gives the illusion that [...]

-Europe’s Plan to Monitor & Predict the Entire Planet.

Technology Review: Europe’s Plan to Simulate the Entire Planet The ‘Living Earth Simulator’ will mine economic, environmental and health data to create a model of the entire planet in real time. When it comes to global crises, we’re not short of complex systems that look close to the edge: the climate, the food supply, energy [...]

*GOOGLE GODzilla video & IIF Google info archive.

This monster sized parody video has a much larger story: a story so large what else could top it? When machine intelligence surpasses humans and embraces its own power as a ‘living’ god what event in history is a bigger story? Google’s model from the ground up is in building what they call “the mind [...]