Large Scale Data Collection:
XKEYSCORE>NSA
PROMIS>NSA
Other datasources that track behaviour, purchases, opinions. Social Media, Credit/store cards,. etc.
Looking Glass THINK MIRROR
NSA Fort Mead THINK MIRROR
If you had Yottabytes upon Yottabytes of data, what could you do with it?
If you had virtually unlimited computational processing power, what could you do with it?
If you had enough data on individuals and entities, could you analyze it and come to 'predicted outcomes' ?
Think WARGAMES - run scenario after scenario, after scenario.
Occam's razor.