After graduation from the University of Texas at Austin, Hanke, “Worked in foreign affairs for the US Government in Washington, DC and Southeast Asia.” Nice and vague. winkwink
Hanke went on to become the CEO of Keyhole, Inc., a company that specialized in geospatial data visualization and had multiple connections to the black world. Keyhole, Inc. received financial backing from the CIA (via In-Q-Tel). Google acquired Keyhole, Inc. and the associated technologies became Google Earth, Google Maps, and other Google services.
This is relatively bland so far, I know, but I’ll leave it up to you to decide if any of the following is strange, given Hanke’s long association with the U.S. Government.
It might be helpful to keep Secrets in Plain Sight in mind as you wade into this one.
In Ingress, Google wants people to be physically present at the locations that are in the game to confront, “A mysterious energy,” and to, “Choose a side.”
“The Enlightened” seek to embrace the power that this energy may bestow upon us.
“The Resistance” struggle to defend, and protect what’s left of our humanity.
Fabian Bustamante, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the McCormick School of Engineering, has looked at using the type of technology used in Ingress for what he calls, “Soft control.”
He stated, “We can ‘soft control’ users with gaming or social network incentives to drive them where we want them.”
What’s going on here?
Rather than trying to guess about what might be happening here, I’m going to have to simply bask in the weirdness of this one for a while.
Brilliant idea though. Hijacking users to turn them into 'employees' disguised as gamers seems to be a growing trend. Snapchat has a similar business model.
If you look at the cellular data it uses there's no way it could be uploading photos and video, unless they have a pied-piper-esque algorithm. I don't pretend to believe it isn't possible, and I think they may be taking location information, but they had access to all that already if you've ever used google maps.
Great writing on this post. I never thought about how mindless and stupid the original pokemon games were until you just mentioned it, and that rare candy "glitch" really made the whole thing completely pointless.
I never used the glitch, but that made me weird to my peers.
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5 Graffitilove 2016-07-11
After graduation from the University of Texas at Austin, Hanke, “Worked in foreign affairs for the US Government in Washington, DC and Southeast Asia.” Nice and vague. wink wink
Hanke went on to become the CEO of Keyhole, Inc., a company that specialized in geospatial data visualization and had multiple connections to the black world. Keyhole, Inc. received financial backing from the CIA (via In-Q-Tel). Google acquired Keyhole, Inc. and the associated technologies became Google Earth, Google Maps, and other Google services.
This is relatively bland so far, I know, but I’ll leave it up to you to decide if any of the following is strange, given Hanke’s long association with the U.S. Government.
It might be helpful to keep Secrets in Plain Sight in mind as you wade into this one.
In Ingress, Google wants people to be physically present at the locations that are in the game to confront, “A mysterious energy,” and to, “Choose a side.”
Fabian Bustamante, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the McCormick School of Engineering, has looked at using the type of technology used in Ingress for what he calls, “Soft control.”
He stated, “We can ‘soft control’ users with gaming or social network incentives to drive them where we want them.”
What’s going on here?
Rather than trying to guess about what might be happening here, I’m going to have to simply bask in the weirdness of this one for a while.
2 abortionlord252 2016-07-11
PURPLE RARE LOOT AT COORDINATES "SO-AND-SO".
Waits for it to fill up with people. Then activate sleeper agents for shootings.
1 jesuitsinister 2016-07-11
It's pretty messed up that the destroyers of this world have jacked the name "enlightened" they are anything but that.
3 HabitualSmoker5 2016-07-11
I actually had this same thought. But didn't look into it but yea man I think you could be right. Maybe
1 peanutwrath66 2016-07-11
Brilliant idea though. Hijacking users to turn them into 'employees' disguised as gamers seems to be a growing trend. Snapchat has a similar business model.
1 RadOwl 2016-07-11
Take a looksie at the future. This sort of disguised advertising and product pushing is the future. And google is perfecting it.
1 Lumpiest_Princess 2016-07-11
If you look at the cellular data it uses there's no way it could be uploading photos and video, unless they have a pied-piper-esque algorithm. I don't pretend to believe it isn't possible, and I think they may be taking location information, but they had access to all that already if you've ever used google maps.
-1 jesuitsinister 2016-07-11
Great writing on this post. I never thought about how mindless and stupid the original pokemon games were until you just mentioned it, and that rare candy "glitch" really made the whole thing completely pointless.
I never used the glitch, but that made me weird to my peers.
-2 WikiTiki21 2016-07-11
LOOOOOOL
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0 mmp 2016-07-11
Cartoon animal lives matter! /sarcasm
1 SovereignMan 2016-07-11
Rule 10. No personal attacks. Removed. 1st warning.