About this episode
George Ure joins the program to discuss his collaboration with Cliff, an inventor who has developed revolutionary web bot technology for forecasting future events through internet data mining. This cutting-edge system scans the web for linguistic patterns and emotional language trends to predict major world events months or even years in advance. Most remarkably, their web bot successfully predicted a major world-changing event in July 2001, months before September 11th occurred. Ure explains how the technology works by analyzing the collective unconscious as expressed through internet communications, essentially tapping into humanity's psychic forecasting abilities on a massive scale. The system has since made predictions about economic events, terrorism, and social upheavals with startling accuracy. Despite facing constant cyber attacks from unknown sources attempting to shut down their research, they continue developing this technology that bridges the gap between intuition and hard data. The conversation explores the implications of being able to forecast the future and whether such knowledge carries moral obligations about warning humanity.