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You may or may not get access to this... (London's) Financial Times... as the news source is subscription based, but with limited access (as NY Times does their site. I'll add a few(!!) excerpts just in case.
Inside Obama's HQ: In the most tech-savvy campaign yet, the ‘big data’ push to keep the President in power uses technology to micro-target voters like never before Sept 14, 2012
Imagine the future with this kind of data correlation & access; fervent campaign volunteers in the field, armed with Pads and Smartphones, emboldened on their mission to save the country from (the other, the 'bad') the opposition; convinced that it true that 'all's fair in love, war and absolutely in American Politics.'
As of now on Facebook if you even look up someone or some topic from your FB page, the next time you see a list of 'suggested friend' it will reflect what you just did. Just touch your mouse, enter a phone number exchange, zip code.... and you are cross-correlated and tagged and one more step into online tracking and indexing.
Not too big of a stretch to imagine we are practically THERE for the ability to get and hold power aided almost entirely by what is said and implicated in this article. If a low-rent production of a film can ignite global chaos by touching nerves already on edge, imagine what someone can do by abuse and misuse of media in all sorts of ways. Because this is just the soft mechanics side of it -- wait until it's being used to manipulate and distort and control the very lives and minds of everyone.
All to get, and hold, the power. Which is what the race we're in right now is all about. The power. Getting and holding the most powerful position on earth, if not in the history of civilizations. And yet it's talked about as if it a city council race to get in office and fix up the roads and improve the local schools.
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Inside Obama's HQ: In the most tech-savvy campaign yet, the ‘big data’ push to keep the President in power uses technology to micro-target voters like never before Sept 14, 2012
Imagine the future with this kind of data correlation & access; fervent campaign volunteers in the field, armed with Pads and Smartphones, emboldened on their mission to save the country from (the other, the 'bad') the opposition; convinced that it true that 'all's fair in love, war and absolutely in American Politics.'
As of now on Facebook if you even look up someone or some topic from your FB page, the next time you see a list of 'suggested friend' it will reflect what you just did. Just touch your mouse, enter a phone number exchange, zip code.... and you are cross-correlated and tagged and one more step into online tracking and indexing.
Not too big of a stretch to imagine we are practically THERE for the ability to get and hold power aided almost entirely by what is said and implicated in this article. If a low-rent production of a film can ignite global chaos by touching nerves already on edge, imagine what someone can do by abuse and misuse of media in all sorts of ways. Because this is just the soft mechanics side of it -- wait until it's being used to manipulate and distort and control the very lives and minds of everyone.
All to get, and hold, the power. Which is what the race we're in right now is all about. The power. Getting and holding the most powerful position on earth, if not in the history of civilizations. And yet it's talked about as if it a city council race to get in office and fix up the roads and improve the local schools.
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