From: Forrest Bishop (forrestb@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sat Jul 20 2002 - 01:28:25 MDT
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From: Anders Sandberg <asa@nada.kth.se>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2002 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: Eye in the Sky
> On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 02:28:15PM -0400, Michael Wiik wrote:
> > I just love their logo
> > http://www.darpa.mil/iao/
>
> It looks almost like it is the logo of the evil conspiracy from some
> B-grade spy movie! :-) Good motto ("Scientia est potentia") though.
The pyramid-with-eye is adapted from a Masonic symbol of heirarchy. It's on the reverse side of the 1-unit Federal Reserve Note.
They might consider adding 3rd-grade English grammar-awareness to the arsenal of democracy:
"...IAO Mission: The DARPA Information Awareness Office (IAO) will imagine, develop, apply, integrate, demonstrate and transition
information technologies, components and prototype, closed-loop, information systems that will counter asymmetric threats by
achieving total information awareness useful for preemption; national security warning; and national security decision making..."
Forrest
-- Forrest Bishop Chairman, Institute of Atomic-Scale Engineering www.iase.cc
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