14 May 2006 - total information awareness

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Science Fiction Prediction

I have a plan to get us out of this pinch. See, when the NSA achieves Total Information Awareness, they’ll enter the Singularity, transcend mere human capability, and no doubt shake the dust of the Milky Way from their heels as they head out to look for bigger challenges. Then we can peacefully return to our regular ignorance and mismanagement.

clue:

Total Information Awareness, now defunct, was a Pentagon program to collect massive amounts of data, similar to the NSA phone records program but wider in scope. Was it shut down, or was it moved to a secret agency?

give me a clue so sweet and true

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