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Crime Prediction Technology: Peeping Tom on Steroids?
Do we pay police to arrest us before we commit a crime or to protect our right to privacy—and are we guilty until proven innocent? Video: 
Are Digital Devices Overloading Your Circuits?
Is the Digital Age enhancing our creativity or depriving the brain of downtime that could be used to come up with new ideas?
Lord Monckton Tempers Climate Hysteria with Reason
Former Margaret Thatcher aide agrees with Michael Crichton that "Global Warming" is more hysteria than science Video: 
Crime Prediction Technology Has Arrived
Now [they think] they know you're a criminal before you commit a crime.
Government/Google's Plan to Dominate the Internet...And You
Why are Washington and Broadcast Media so afraid of the Internet? Video: 
Intel Wants to Read Your Mind
"...you'll be able to write letters, open emails or do Google searches just by thinking."
IBM's Smarter Planet: Bringing 'Minority Report' Closer to You?
TELEGRAPH August 1, 2010 | Advertising billboards similar to those seen in the film Minority Report, which can recognize passers-by, target them with customized adverts and even use their names, are being developed by computer engineers. Video: 
World Wide Computer, Another HAL?
The giant grid of computing power emerging from the likes of Google and Microsoft could have a dark side The Big Switch
Google, CIA Reinforce Intelligence-Industrial Complex
WIRED July 28, 2010 | The investment arms of the CIA and Google are both backing a company that monitors the web in real time — and says it uses that information to predict the future.
Guilt By Genetic Association?
NYTIMES July 24, 2010 | IT’S the latest criminal investigation technique, and it gives new meaning to that old saw “the ties that bind.”
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