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The Ns Ages Grubs Are Meta Data
Noah shackman is the editor in chief of daily beast, an outlet that alec screams about quite often for their very cruel coverage or the stupid things he says and does. He's on the show because he wrote a story about early possible plans from darpa to create a project called life log which would seek to compile all available data on individuals. It was outrageously fucked up as an idea, and it did not end up coming to pass for a number of reasons. One was probably public backlash, but another was probably the unfeasibility of creating a system that would be able to do this in any meaningful way.