SOFTWARE THAT PREDICTS THE FUTURE

As someone who has been privileged to attend all ten TTP Rendezvous, I hugely enjoyed the recent Victory Rendezvous in our nation’s capital.  When I told Jack about "software that predicts the future," he asked me to give a presentation on it – then be sure and write it up so that all TTPers would know.

So let me tell you about a small company in Cambridge, Massachusetts called Recorded Future.  CEO Christopher Ahlberg, a former Swedish Army Ranger with a Ph.D in computer science, heads a 16-man team that uses extremely efficient data mining to generate a consortium of data points with fascinating predictive power.

Here is how it works.

With what the company calls its proprietary "Temporal Analytics" software, literally thousands of news publications, blogs, financial databases, government websites, trade publications and specific niche sources are continually scanned.  From this compilation of content, information is filtered, distilled and collected from the content that points to the momentum and propensity of future events.

One may explore the past, present and the predicted future of almost any subject. This would include financial services, corporate strategies, litigation, and national security.

Take Recorded Future’s Intelligence Analysis Tools. Last March, Israeli President Shimon Peres claimed that Syria had begun supplying the terror group Hezbollah with long range missiles.  

In a demonstration exercise to show the system’s capabilities, RF quickly filtered through past statements by Hezbollah leaders such as Hassan Nasrullah.  With the filtering, the Syria-Hezbollah plot jumps out at you – which means Israel could have acted to prevent it rather than condemning it after the fact.

Or take the analysis done on Pakistani-American terrorist Daood Sayed Gilani, who assumed the name of David Coleman Headley and traveled to India to plan the horrific terrorist attacks of November 2008 in Bombay.  A Recorded Future Index of this man shows from his travels, contacts, and activities his high propensity for active participation in Moslem terrorism.

Note that this index also shows how most any individual – like you or me – can be researched using Recorded Future.  The applications for this technology are vast, for good or bad.

Financial analysis via quant financial analysis and trading is accessible via Recorded Future. One can harness a powerful web-services API to build and run queries via a rich indexed media content. Trading signals may be constructed from specific news data. Alpha events may be explored by filtering news via source, time and event types.

Company equities may be visualized by researching product release and company events. One may also identify or access potentially planned future events. It also will give one the opportunity to comprehend contacts between firms, important stockholders, products, analysts and individuals. One can preset alerts to flag key credit events, industry specific events, insider trading, merger rumors and more.

One can run media analytics o corporate activities.  You have the ability to follow strategic plans and activity. For instance monitoring legal issues, patent issuances, potential IPO’s and product release dates.

Brand monitoring can be accomplished by following product perception online.  Identify who is interested in your products and also what they may be saying. Find out which companies are using a product. Become aware of events which may effect consumer sentiment. Track your products success via momentum over time.

Pricing for a single user is $149.00 per month, Groups with tem or more at a $139.00 per user/monthly and $2,500.00 per month for an API programmer interface. For enterprise level access you can contact the website at https://www.recordedfuture.com/contact-us.html

With the advent of technology progressing in increasingly rapid tangents, we find the advantages of this science productive and terrifying at the same time. Truly we have advanced beyond 1984 and important decisions are needed for how these emerging technologies will be applied.

In the hands of responsible groups it can play to a huge advantage. In the hands of fascists, it may be our worst nightmare.

To your health and privacy,

Marco