Yes it sounds like some new age, wacky, based on nothing idea but you might be surprised to learn that there is software available, a bit like the “spiders” that early search engines used to use to index web pages, that scuttles through the web collecting “web chatter” that can be used to predict events. It is the Web Bot Project.
Ok, I agree, it does sound crazy and perhaps it is, however, the technology was originally used to predict movements in the stock market which wasn’t so crazy at the time.
It has to be said though that the software is now being used for an entirely different purpose, people are purchasing the software, installing it on their laptops and becoming laptop prophets.
How the software works is it crawls through the different web sites and analyses all the text that is out there, collecting key words as it goes and this apparently gives a unique insight into what is going on in the minds of people using the web.
Now take one or two folk and yes you would get pretty skewed results leading to a pretty screwed up conclusion but take the ramblings of many, many millions, then a different scenario emerges, in theory that is.
According to some it has so far predicted the 9/11 attacks and the devastating Tsunami on Boxing Day 2004.
The creators are now saying that the software can foretell natural disasters and that it has come up with a prediction that the world will end precisely on the 21st December in 2012, possibly as a result of a Polar shift when North Pole becomes South Pole and vice versa.
Ok so that’s a bit basic but that’s the gist of it.
Correct me if I’m wrong but why can’t anyone see that there must be hundreds of thousands of folk all “chattering” on the web about this particular date?
It just so happens that the Mayan calendar stops on that date for a start and conspiracy theorists have a never ending list of theories about the world ending exactly then, all based on nothing much more than simple association.
So, just because it is being talked about doesn’t mean it’s going to happen or has no one grasped that concept yet?
Which brings me to another point, if the software is accurate, then be very careful what you say on the web, you could inadvertently influence the future.
I’m joking!
