+1. They quote million sources. I have never heard about that site nor have i verified the sources. But if these points are true then it is very scary
Of course the potential is true and I believe the reality is true, as well.
Read up, all of you who chided me as being paranoid for wanting to stay away from "One Google". (Google docs, gmail, Google maps, etc) We all know Google (and all the other big corps) collect information to better understand us to ultimately get our sales/money. I was shaken when I saw their "bots" instantly follow me wherever I clicked. How many of us participated in our fellow ddfer's school project on clicking? It's real.
Consciously using this information to create better rapport, communication, and influence the listeners' thoughts has not really reached individuals in the masses as of yet. It has, however, reached middle and even lower management in large businesses and schools. Salesmen seem to come by it naturally without having to be taught. When we make a customer feel good about buying that which he came to buy anyway or communicate to a child in a language style which he will understand...that is good. When we influence an unwitting customer using confidential knowledge of his personal life...that is bad. (Caveat: assuming this is not done for
his good.) When we are suppose to be unbiased and influence and unwitting customer...that is what becomes scary.
I am not a Doomsday person, but this ain't lookin' pretty. How far behind the Chinese are we?
"By 2020, China will have put in place the most ambitious government monitoring system ever created – a single database called the Social Credit System, in which multiple ratings and records for all of its 1.3 billion citizens are recorded for easy access by officials and bureaucrats. At a glance, they will know whether someone has plagiarised schoolwork, was tardy in paying bills, urinated in public, or blogged inappropriately online."
