CIA and Google sponsor prophets

Who would not want to see the future? Millions of people around the world spend a great deal of money paying for services of prophets and magicians. Whether the predictions come true is another matter, but there is certainly a steady demand. The official science is also not standing still and is trying all sorts of ways to look into events that await us in the years to come. Will the humanity learn to predict the future?

According to British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, Iranian Center for Strategic Innovations patented the invention "The Aryayek Time Traveling Machine". According to the scientist Ali Razeghi, this machine does not transfer an individual into the future, but only predicts it for the next five to eight years based on her fingerprint. This invention is no larger than a standard PC and uses sophisticated algorithms.

The scientist has been working on the machine for the last ten years. According to him, this invention will enable the Iranian authorities to predict the possibility of a military conflict or fluctuations in currency exchange rates or oil prices. "The government capable of looking 5 years into the future will be able to prepare for a potentially hazardous situation," said the scientist. Razeghi Ali claims that his know-how can predict the future of any individual with 98-percent accuracy.

It is not reported how exactly the scientist was able to verify the accuracy of the predictions of his invention. 

The details of the algorithm also remain confidential, as well as the format of the results. Razeghi is afraid to mass produce his invention because he believes that the idea may be stolen by the Chinese who would make millions of copies of it. It is difficult to check the truthfulness of this information. Every year, there are numerous statements from different scientists about the alleged invention of a time machine, but so far no one has managed to get in the past or the future, or change it.

Scientists of the Israel Institute of Technology along with experts from Microsoft stated that they have developed an interesting computer program able to see into the future and even predict what will occur tomorrow. The program analyzes different sources of information to determine which events, when and why happened in the past. The machine then displays a definite pattern, and based on this information can accurately predict 70-90 percent of a civil unrest and outbreak of epidemics. At this time scientists are not considering commercialization of the program. Now the software is still running in a test mode. In addition, scientists are striving to improve the accuracy of its predictions by increasing the number of data sources for analysis.

British scientists have developed an algorithm that can predict where the owner of a smartphone would go with high probability. The studies were conducted in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham. They showed that it is possible to guess the future location of the user by analyzing her previous moves, details of incoming and outgoing calls, used applications and information left in social networks. All this, of course, is the information from public sources.

In addition, virtually each mobile device has a GPS receiver. If not, then the location of the phone owner can be calculated based on geo-location data for cellular antennas. The information about people's possible plans will be useful for marketers and advertisers. They will be able to improve the accuracy of targeting, recommending specific stores in the area where a potential customer would presumably go. Also, these data can help law enforcement agencies to predict potential crime scenes.  

Not only ordinary citizens and scientists are interested in looking into the future. Intelligence agencies cannot remain on the sidelines when it comes to predictions. Google and the CIA have invested in the company engaged in prediction of future events based on the monitoring of the World Wide Web.

The company Recorded Future scans tens of thousands of websites, blogs and twitters, trying to find hidden connections between people, organizations, past and future events and actions. The company's management says that they have created an analytical engine capable of detecting "invisible links" between organizations, documents and events.

The idea is to find out which blog entries and twits preceded past events, and then, on the basis of these data, predict future events. Of course, the development of Recorded Future has a great potential for prevention of undesirable trends and developments. Google and In-Q-Tel (CIA investment company) invested in this company back in 2009. The exact amount of the transaction has not been released. Both Google and In-Q-Tel have a seat on the board of directors of Recorded Future. It should be noted that this is not the first time when Google is doing business with the CIA. Watching as the search giant is actively working with the U.S. intelligence, many are beginning to worry that their information may fall into the hands of enemies.

While some scientists are trying to come up with innovative ways of predicting the future, others claim that anyone can predict it. This, in particular, was stated by U.S. scientists. Employees of the University of Washington have even discovered the area of ​​the brain responsible for visionary skills.

The scientists based their conclusions on the fact that every person predicts certain events in life, for example, when their bus will come, or who is at the door. The researchers decided to study the brain activity of volunteers using magnetic resonance imaging. The subjects were shown a video of normal events: a housewife doing laundry, a child assembling Lego, a man washing his car, etc. At some point, the recording was stopped, and the researchers asked volunteers to predict what would happen next. In 80-90 percent of cases, the volunteers answered correctly.

According to the head of the study Professor Jeffrey Zax, predicting the future is essential for human survival and is a key component in learning and perception of speech. He said that while it was good to escape from a lion's attack, it is much better to predict which road the lion would take to avoid the predator altogether. 

In the course of this experiment, the structure in the midbrain called substantia nigra was particularly active. The black substance is responsible for making vital decisions that help a person to survive or adapt to the environment.

Not that long ago, Russian scientists-parapsychologists said that the phenomenon of anticipation was inherent in every person. Instead of looking into the future using planets, beans, maps, computers and coffee grounds, it is better to explore our own mind. According to their theory, predicting the future is the innate ability of the human brain.

The gist of the Russian parapsychologists' information theory is that the human brain is a matrix filled with a variety of information codes. Living in a three-dimensional time stream, a person constantly sends and receives information. The radiated information recedes into the past, and the incoming comes from the future. Information is the link between the physical and the mental body of the person, and the person receives and transmits it. The person is at the same time in the past and in the future. People are sending information signals from the past to the future, and vice versa. A person can independently simulate the future, because it is multivariate. Simply put, anyone is a prophet.

Sergei Vasilenkov

Pravda.Ru 

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