Seeing Stones, A Look Into Our Future

Palantir sounds like a White Knight of Old.
A real live, Guardian of the Galaxy.
And I suppose this is how Peter Theil & Alex Karp see it and want people to believe.

Palantir is a US SAS company, (software and services) specializing in Deep Data Analysis.
The name comes from the, "Seeing Stones" in Lord of the Rings.
(Not to be confused with the word Volunteer. As in, Volunteer Information)

A cute name for a Company that will be picking the bleached Deep Data bones of society.

I suppose they felt it was a business opportunity, to good to miss.

But Trump and his Thousand Year Reich Cohorts will have access to information beyond their wildest dreams.

""pulling big buckets of information (call records, IP addresses, financial transactions, names, conversations, travel records) into one centralized heap and visualizing them coherently.""

This is where Skynet will be born.
Out of our manipulation our greed for,
"The Big Data Dump."
We will let the AI software control the Data.
A modern Charles Xavier House of Mirrors.
All seeing, all knowing.
And I cannot imagine it will be just used, to sample survey,
Joe Averages opinion on the latest,
Soya Meat Substitute.

Should we fear for the future?
I believe it may already be to late.
Schrödinger's Cat has indeed left the building.
"Send in the Klones. Wait!"
"Don't bother their here.":D~

Read On:

DONALD TRUMP HAS inherited the most powerful machine for spying ever devised. How this petty, vengeful man might wield and expand the sprawling American spy apparatus, already vulnerable to abuse, is disturbing enough on its own. But the outlook is even worse considering Trump’s vast preference for private sector expertise and new strategic friendship with Silicon Valley billionaire investor Peter Thiel, whose controversial (and opaque) company Palantir has long sought to sell governments an unmatched power to sift and exploit information of any kind. Thiel represents a perfect nexus of government clout with the kind of corporate swagger Trump loves. The Intercept can now reveal that Palantir has worked for years to boost the global dragnet of the NSA and its international partners, and was in fact co-created with American spies.

Peter Thiel became one of the American political mainstream’s most notorious figures in 2016 (when it emerged he was bankrolling a lawsuit against Gawker Media, my former employer) even before he won a direct line to the White House. Now he brings to his role as presidential adviser decades of experience as kingly investor and token nonliberal on Facebook’s board of directors, a Rolodex of software luminaries, and a decidedly Trumpian devotion to controversy and contrarianism. But perhaps the most appealing asset Thiel can offer our bewildered new president will be Palantir Technologies, which Thiel founded with Alex Karp and Joe Lonsdale in 2004.

Palantir has never masked its ambitions, in particular the desire to sell its services to the U.S. government — the CIA itself was an early investor in the startup through In-Q-Tel, the agency’s venture capital branch. But Palantir refuses to discuss or even name its government clientele, despite landing “at least $1.2 billion” in federal contracts since 2009, according to an August 2016 report in Politico. The company was last valued at $20 billion and is expected to pursue an IPO in the near future. In a 2012 interview with TechCrunch, while boasting of ties to the intelligence community, Karp said nondisclosure contracts prevent him from speaking about Palantir’s government work.

Read the Whole Article:
https://theintercept.com/2017/02/22/how-peter-thiels-palantir-helped-the-nsa-spy-on-the-whole-world

Image Courtesy of Pixabay & Return of the King & Skynet Corporation