Keybored,
Good afternoon...some technologies yes, undoubtedly, are being suppressed..
technologies such as Cold Fusion were masked for many years.
This happens to be a prime example due to the implications of the existence
of this technology. The implications to the oil and power industries is mind crippling.
However one thing I would like to point out is that, there are times, when stifling
a technology (whether by choice or ignorance) can be a good thing. As an example I would
like to use an exerpt from the Defense Tech Web site on the DARPA Program called Real-World Reasoning
DARPA WANTS YOUR LIFE INDEXABLE AND SEARCHABLE
It's a memory aid! A robotic assistant! An epidemic detector! An all-seeing, ultra-intrusive spying program!
The Pentagon is about to embark on a stunningly ambitious research project designed to gather every conceivable bit of information about a person's
life, index it and make it searchable.
What national security experts and civil libertarians want to know is, why the hell would the Defense Department want to do such a thing?
The embryonic LifeLog program would take every e-mail you've sent or received, every picture you've taken, every web page you've surfed, every
phone call you've had, every TV show you've watched, every magazine you've read, and dump it into a giant database.
All of this -- and more -- would be combined with a GPS transmitter, to keep tabs on where you're going; audio-visual sensors, to capture all that
you see or say; and biomedical monitors, to keep track of your health.
This gigantic amalgamation of personal information could then be used to "trace the 'threads' of an individual's life," to see exactly how a
relationship or events developed, according to a briefing from the Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency, LifeLog's sponsor.
If anyone wishes to read the rest of the article it can be found here
www.defensetech.org...
Of greatest concern to me is what they call their LifeLog program and the already in place
TIA (Total Information Awareness now renamed to Terrorist Information Awareness) program.
If THIS type of technology were to come to fruition I'd say we should go back to stone wheels.
I dont believe we need newer or cleaner technology to bring us to Armageddon
our basic nature will do that for us. Instead perhaps a reversal is in order to "level the field"
with respect to technology.