I almost said "Paycheck", but that's not it. But you are right. It's been filmed.
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It’s a > desire that has kept palm readers, astrologists and tealeaf readers in > business for hundreds of years. Now there’s a company called Recorded Future > that says it can use information scoured from tens of thousands of websites, > blogs and Twitter accounts to predict the future. And before you laugh, it’s > got some heavyweight backers including Google and the CIA. > > Recorded Future uses the term “temporal analytics” to describe what it > does. It extracts information including entities, events and the time that > these events occur from the thousands of news publications, blogs, niche > sources, trade publications, government web sites, financial databases and > more that the company continually scans. Using this information the company > says it is able to find the relationships between people, organizations, > actions and incidents, not only in the past and present, but also in the > future. > <http://www.gizmag.com/recorded-future-uses-the-internet-to-predict-the-future/15921/picture/118824/> > Google with a difference > > In a white > paper<http://blog.recordedfuture.com/2010/03/13/recorded-future-%E2%80%93-a-white-paper-on-temporal-analytics/>describing > the underlying philosophy and overall system architecture of > Recorded Future the company says that a comparison with traditional search > engines is inevitable, but that search is only one aspect of its temporal > analytics engine. > > Unlike the PageRank algorithm that is at the heart of Google’s search > engine that uses explicit link analysis by analyzing links between pages and > ranking pages based on the number of links pointing to it as well as the > rank of the pages pointing to it, Recorded Future adds implicit link > analysis to its system. It does this by separating the documents and their > content from what they talk about – the “canonical” entities and events – so > it is able to look at the “invisible links” between documents that talk > about the same, or related, entities and events. > > A ranking measure called *momentum* – based on the number of documents > referring to these canonical entities and events while taking into account > the credibility of the documents (or document sources) along with several > other factors – is the company’s aggregate judgment of how interesting or > important an entity or event is at a certain point in time. This momentum > measure will change over time. > Predicting the future > > So how is this type of analysis supposed to predict the future? In addition > to extracting event and entity references, Recorded Future also analyzes the > “time and space dimension” of documents – references to when and where an > event has taken place, or even when and where it will take place – since > many documents actually refer to events expected to take place in the > future. A company’s plans to open a production plant in a particular country > in the next two years, for example. > > This time and space analysis by aggregating weighted opinions about the > likely timing of future events is the first way in which Recorded Future > says it makes predictions about the future. Additionally, the company says > it can also use statistical models to predict future happenings based on > historical records of chains of events of similar kinds. > <http://www.gizmag.com/recorded-future-uses-the-internet-to-predict-the-future/15921/picture/118821/> > > It is this combination of automatic event, entity, time and location > extraction, implicit link analysis, and statistical prediction models that > forms the basis for Recorded Future’s temporal analytics engine. > > The company is also adding more components such as sentiment analyses, > which determine an author’s attitude towards his/her topic, and how strong > that attitude is. > Big things predicted > > Recorded Future has attracted funding from Google’s investment arm, Google > Ventures, as well as In-Q-Tel, a not-for-profit venture capital firm that > invests in high-tech companies on behalf of the CIA. Although the exact > amounts haven’t been disclosed, both were apparently under US$10 million > each. > > With businesses always looking at ways to gather more information to make > better-informed decisions and, more importantly, willing to pay for it, it’s > likely investors will see a handsome return on their investment. Individuals > hoping to use Recorded Future to predict next week’s lotto numbers probably > won’t be as lucky. > > Anyone curious can sign up at Recorded > Futures<https://www.recordedfuture.com/index.html>to receive free “broad” > email alerts on events in the future, (which > Recorded Future calls “futures”), while a premium subscription costing > US$149 provides more detailed temporal analyses including highly specific > alerts on events in the future, present or past and dynamic timeline > visualizations. > > Via Wired <http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia/> > Gallery Images > > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik