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Eyes in the Sky
Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All | Arthur Holland Michel
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The fascinating history and unnerving future of high-tech aerial surveillance, from its secret military origins to its growing use on American citizens Eyes in the Sky is the authoritative account of how the Pentagon secretly developed a godlike surveillance system for monitoring America's enemies overseas, and how it is now being used to watch us in our own backyards. Whereas a regular aerial camera can only capture a small patch of ground at any given time, this systemand its most powerful iteration, Gorgon Stareallow operators to track thousands of moving targets at once, both forwards and backwards in time, across whole city-sized areas. When fused with big-data analysis techniques, this network can be used to watch everything simultaneously, and perhaps even predict attacks before they happen. In battle, Gorgon Stare and other systems like it have saved countless lives, but when this technology is deployed over American citiesas it already has been, extensively and largely in secretit has the potential to become the most nightmarishly powerful visual surveillance system ever built. While it may well solve serious crimes and even help ease the traffic along your morning commute, it could also enable far more sinister and dangerous intrusions into our lives. This is closed-circuit television on steroids. Facebook in the heavens. Drawing on extensive access within the Pentagon and in the companies and government labs that developed these devices, Eyes in the Sky reveals how a top-secret team of mad scientists brought Gorgon Stare into existence, how it has come to pose an unprecedented threat to our privacy and freedom, and how we might still capitalize on its great promise while avoiding its many perils.
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Given this book‘s subtitle, I was a little concerned it would be an alarmist, conspiracy theory laden screed. Happily, it‘s not! It looks at the development of sophisticated surveillance technology that is able to cover a whole city in detail and allows users to work backward from an event to see what happened before. It goes through how this technology could be beneficial and problematic. A balanced, fascinating read.

shanaqui That sounds really fascinating! 3y
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You never know when you‘re being watched or listened to. These days it‘s best just to assume you always are.
The song lyrics from a Nirvana song comes to mind;
“Just because you're paranoid
Don't mean they're not after you”

Eyes in the Sky by Arthur Holland Micheal is highly informative, I feel like everyone needs to read it if they get the chance. 👀🔎
Synopsis in the post I made before this one⚠️⚠️⚠️

catiewithac Love this tote! 😍 5y
BookBumming @catiewithac THANK YOU!! 5y
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Eyes in the Sky: The Secret Rise of Gorgon Stare and How It Will Watch Us All, by Arthur Holland Micheal👁🔎
Second Non-Fiction read of the month.
Eyes in the Sky is the authoritative account of how the Pentagon secretly developed a godlike surveillance system for monitoring America's enemies overseas, and how it is now being used to watch us in our own backyards.

Synopsis in comments⚠️ #nonfiction #technology #science #war #surveillance

BookBumming Whereas a regular aerial camera can only capture a small patch of ground at any given time, this system—and its most powerful iteration, Gorgon Stare—allow operators to track thousands of moving targets at once, both forwards and backwards in time, across whole city-sized areas. When fused with big-data analysis techniques, this network can be used to watch everything simultaneously, and perhaps even predict attacks before they happen. 5y
BookBumming In battle, Gorgon Stare and other systems like it have saved countless lives, but when this technology is deployed over American cities—as it already has been, extensively and largely in secret—it has the potential to become the most nightmarishly powerful visual surveillance system ever built. 5y
BookBumming While it may well solve serious crimes and even help ease the traffic along your morning commute, it could also enable far more sinister and dangerous intrusions into our lives. This is closed-circuit television on steroids. Facebook in the heavens.  5y
BookBumming Drawing on extensive access within the Pentagon and in the companies and government labs that developed these devices, Eyes in the Sky reveals how a top-secret team of mad scientists brought Gorgon Stare into existence, how it has come to pose an unprecedented threat to our privacy and freedom, and how we might still capitalize on its great promise while avoiding its many perils. 5y
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