I've posted this before, including on threads today, but I think it's worthy of it's own thread.

DARPA is working on a "crystal ball" SIM EARTH that predicts what every man woman and child, and probably actual livestock are doing on Earth, and they're trying to make it real-time accurate.

That's what Big Brother is for. Not to know what you have done, or what you are doing, or what you are gonna do, but to predict how masses of people will respond to things they want to do, and want you to do as a reaction.

http://cryptogon.com/?p=956

Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation

(long page, and I recommend reading ALL of it and related pages)
(snip)
...The system allows for terra scale datasets with granularity of results down to one node (individual). It has a physics engine for tracking any number of people (or other elements) in virtual cities or spaces. It can correlate any amount of social, economic, political, environmental or other data with the behavior of groups or individuals on the ground. The U.S. Government, and some of the most powerful corporations on the planet are using the SEAS system....

Quote:Consumer behaviour is the study of individuals, groups, or organizations and the processes they use to select, secure, and dispose of products, services, experiences, or ideas to satisfy needs and the impacts that these processes have on the consumer and society.[1] It blends elements from psychology, sociology, social anthropology and economics. It attempts to understand the buyer decision making process, both individually and in groups. It studies characteristics of individual consumers such as demographics and behavioural variables in an attempt to understand people's wants. It also tries to assess influences on the consumer from groups such as family, friends, reference groups, and society in general.

Customer behaviour study is based on consumer buying behaviour, with the customer playing the three distinct roles of user, payer and buyer. Research has shown that consumer behavior is difficult to predict, even for experts in the field.[2] Relationship marketing is an influential asset for customer behaviour analysis as it has a keen interest in the re-discovery of the true meaning of marketing through the re-affirmation of the importance of the customer or buyer. A greater importance is also placed on consumer retention, customer relationship management, personalisation, customisation and one-to-one marketing. Social functions can be categorized into social choice and welfare functions.

Each method for vote counting is assumed as social function but if Arrow’s possibility theorem is used for a social function, social welfare function is achieved. Some specifications of the social functions are decisiveness, neutrality, anonymity, monotonicity, unanimity, homogeneity and weak and strong Pareto optimality. No social choice function meets these requirements in an ordinal scale simultaneously. The most important characteristic of a social function is identification of the interactive effect of alternatives and creating a logical relation with the ranks. Marketing provides services in order to satisfy customers. With that in mind, the productive system is considered from its beginning at the production level, to the end of the cycle, the consumer (Kioumarsi et al., 2009).

sounds strangely like that terry pratchet disc world thing where they create the universe and earth thing in a bubble. who ever was looking after it and nurturing it went for a piss or something and completely missed human existence in the blink of an eye.

What they really need is a SIM WALL STREET......

....so they can predict the next time that they try to crash the economy BEFORE they get away with it......

I've posted this before, including on threads today, but I think it's worthy of it's own thread.

DARPA is working on a "crystal ball" SIM EARTH that predicts what every man woman and child, and probably actual livestock are doing on Earth, and they're trying to make it real-time accurate.

That's what Big Brother is for. Not to know what you have done, or what you are doing, or what you are gonna do, but to predict how masses of people will respond to things they want to do, and want you to do as a reaction.

http://cryptogon.com/?p=956

Synthetic Environments for Analysis and Simulation

(long page, and I recommend reading ALL of it and related pages)
(snip)
...The system allows for terra scale datasets with granularity of results down to one node (individual). It has a physics engine for tracking any number of people (or other elements) in virtual cities or spaces. It can correlate any amount of social, economic, political, environmental or other data with the behavior of groups or individuals on the ground. The U.S. Government, and some of the most powerful corporations on the planet are using the SEAS system....

And then they'll set up stations around the globe to broadcast how controlled citizens should act.

I use my debit card to get cash.

Then I spend my cash.