Comments on: The Human Terrain Project

By: Newjarheaddean

Newjarheaddean — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:03:19 +0000

AHOY, I say people in general are creatures of habit, and much easier to track/map than one might think and the odd ones would be the targeted ones, i.e. did not deposit a check today as usual would be noted or dose not have a bank account etc. However I agree that ultimately were talking lets say think “Quantum Leap” TV show remember that one, the guy with the invisible friend and his computer “squigy” I believe. And since that aired a decade ago I say those in charge are way ahead of the curve. Big brother is all grown up.

By: Newjarheaddean

Newjarheaddean — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:38:01 +0000

AHOY, we don’t need new terms every time someone comes up with some Idea. it’s call demographics and its based on various census.

By: DBH

DBH — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 02:37:05 +0000

I’m a little worried as an anthropologist, because what I’ve seen from the HTS Project in the past has been overly simplistic descriptions of highly complex societal normals, mindsets, and epistemological differences.
I hope that Dailey gets the level of detail that he requires. Anything else, even little mistakes have the potential to cause extreme misunderstanding.

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By: stephen russell

stephen russell — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:51:26 +0000

Yes must have for counter terrorisim
Love the idea.
Have enough IT & AI power to achieve in the DoD alone aside colleges & Univs.
Neat.
Low cost to fund.
Doable.
EZ do.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:03:56 +0000

We need to create surveillance balloons to loiter in areas, or schedule Globalhawks to scan terrain on a daily basis. If we layer on infrared data we can compare and overlay images taken the day, hour, minute before and figure out where the movements were. All of this needs to be automated. If we can get there. We can find all the roadside bombs before they find us. We can also use ground penetrating radar to look for metals and geo sensing equipment to look for explosive elements to better map the deadly stuff, mine fields and such. This same equipment is already in use on satellites and is used to look for mineral deposits and such.
Why aren

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:54:47 +0000

or he could get a general view by reading Salzman’s “Culture and Conflict”

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:52:31 +0000

Sounds brilliant. Not only would you need to crack open history books, you’d probably have to divide each section into demographics, and if a database was built, it’d probably provide more than one answer.
For example, it might say this about Iraq:
–Sunnis and Shiites intermarried and some tribes were of mixed composition.
HOWEVER,
–If put into duress things may fracture along religious lines.
OR, depending on X,
–Things may fragment tribally.
Then you get things like…
“The elders do X“
“while the young would do Y“
And this would be just one family or one village, etc.
And then as the scope expands and the number of cross interactions increases…yeech.
Probably need a data mining component to use people’s blogs to supplement data from their biased, first-person perspectives.

By: mrsachmo

mrsachmo — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:21:09 +0000

that would be one dynamic map! you’d need a pretty vigilant team to keep it updated in today’s political world.

By: Tad

Tad — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:55:19 +0000

Of course an intelligence agency would need to understand people in depth. Without that understanding, what good are data obtained by spy planes and gadgets?