Everquest, the 4th generation. Dawn of the Age of Information

[Akim]

Was watching this for a class ..

http://www.objectivity.com/media/dat...re/default.asp

Really technical shit (boring to most people - unless you're into learning) but read the timeline 5:30 min in ~~ it's pretty cool that the 4th generation of gaming is summed up by the great Everquest. As we said goodbye to the age of industrialism.

EDIT:

After watching check out how this has evolved in a short peroid of time, we are in a new era of "darkness", meaning government spying and private entities working for the government and world governments.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.p...t=va&aid=13695

A short excerpt,
the FBI is deploying spyware called a "computer internet protocol address verifier," or CIPAV, designed to infiltrate a target's computer and gather a wide range of information, "which it sends to an FBI server in eastern Virginia." While the documents do not detail CIPAV's capabilities, an FBI affidavit from a 2007 case indicate it gathers and reports,

a computer's IP address; MAC address; open ports; a list of running programs; the operating system type, version and serial number; preferred internet browser and version; the computer's registered owner and registered company name; the current logged-in user name and the last-visited URL.

After sending the information to the FBI, the CIPAV settles into a silent "pen register" mode, in which it lurks on the target computer and monitors its internet use, logging the IP address of every server to which the machine connects.


-- This is called "going dark" and might I add this is LESS THAN TWO YEARS after the video in the first link was created, and we've had TWO more years since this second link. Now we're clear this is leading into the "praised" (and EXTREMELY UNSAFE) Cloud or Internet 2. Which I'll post when I find reliable sources for ya.