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On a related thought, the model approach would be a interesting OSINT feature - imagine a Snow Crash style CIA Factbook containing a Wikipedia like feed of continuous real time data - not stock prices but shipman’s airplane movements, estimates of cargo and bills of material for cars being shipped.

Laying bare this world trade, will have an impact on similar way laying bare the politicking of parliaments did.

Would look cool too

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For CIA Factbook and Wiki, the focus is on All Information about a subject.

For News orgs the focus is on New Infotmation.

So even though news orgs have professional trained info collectors, and have good access to networks that produce Info they don't think of them selves as a Wiki or Factbook. Why?

Cause legacy + they are taught media theory not information theory + tech platforms are not taught either and control distribution of info.

But things change as people learn the system is a waste and noise generating. Learning takes time.

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