Noah Sachtman for Wired reports:
Chief Scientists of the Air Force Dr. Mark Maybury [would] like to build a set of sensors that peer into people’s souls — and forecast wars before they erupt.
Maybury calls his vision “Social Radar.’” And the comparison to traditional sensors is no accident, he tells Danger Room. “The Air Force and the Navy in this and other countries have a history of developing Sonar to see through the water, Radar to see through the air, and IR [infrared] to see through the night. Well, we also want to see into the hearts and the minds of people,” says Maybury, who serves as the top science advisor to the Air Force’s top brass.
The Social Radar would collate information from "Facebook timelines, political polls, spy drone feeds, relief workers’ reports, and infectious disease alerts" to better "quantify, model — and, eventually, foresee — the human, social, cultural, and behavioral dimensions of conflict."
Can human behavior really be forecast?
Maybury is quick to push back on the criticism. “Just like nobody could imagine seeing through the night or seeing through water, nobody can imagine seeing attitudes. And actually, in my view, that’s very much a future reality,” he says.
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