Total Information Awareness: When Technology Chased Omniscience
By AK 21 • ShepardCode Weekly A Program That Tried to See Everything In the wake of September 11, 2001, the U.S. government launched an ambitious research initiative called Total Information Awareness (TIA). Managed by DARPA’s Information Awareness Office, it promised to integrate data across financial records, travel logs, phone calls, emails, and even medical…