reply to post by bluwaterman
I actually have just listened to an interview with the co-creator Cliff High of the WebBot project. The service is subscription based, you have to pay
for reports. So it was pulled of other sites because it was a breach of the conditions. As posting it on other sites is against the copywrite and a
violation.
The predctions they make for Mid year-July is weather based, rain deluges, hurricanes, winds, mudslides, extreme fires.....and related to Global
Climate Change, the change Cliff High is also predicting a paradigm shift in the attitudes to Climate change due to this. The bot is also reporting
War in November after Economic meltdown via Fiscal collapse. Nothing, nothing at all about Flu's, epidemics as per the OP.
It also has 2012 predictions. This is a big net topic, hardly surprising that the bot would report on this, we don't even know what the seed words
are or the values given to them, and how the reports are written from them.
Funnily enough it does this by searching key words input by the operators and finding those words and the surrounding text.
It is based on forums. So it is discriminatory on technology and those that use them. Only a small percentage of the earths population. They
concentrate on language, changes and conversation data aggregation. The creators attribute emotional values to key text and seed value words. They
base the reports on these words and surrounding Data.
Given Forums would be dealing with alot of talk on Climate, Economics and the Middle East. I find the predictions unsurprising, unimaginative and
expected. Extreme weather, economic chaos, and war. Wow. Hardly new.
[edit on 26-4-2009 by atlasastro]
