"Who's In Big Brother's Database?

Bekah bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net
Tue Oct 27 08:14:40 CDT 2009


I don't think anyone sent this - it's pretty interesting from a  
paranoid's pov.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/23231
Volume 56, Number 17 ยท November 5, 2009

On a remote edge of Utah's dry and arid high desert, where  
temperatures often zoom past 100 degrees, hard-hatted construction  
workers with top-secret clearances are preparing to build what may  
become America's equivalent of Jorge Luis Borges's "Library of Babel,"  
a place where the collection of information is both infinite and at  
the same time monstrous, where the entire world's knowledge is stored,  
but not a single word is understood. At a million square feet, the  
mammoth $2 billion structure will be one-third larger than the US  
Capitol and will use the same amount of energy as every house in Salt  
Lake City combined.

Bekah




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