Ambient
Information Systems (AIS) is delighted
to announce the launch of its September 11 collection, celebrating the
Total Information Awareness (TIA) logo of the US Defence
Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The TIA
logo was discontinued recently, and this potent symbol of security and
freedom would have been lost to history were it not for its timely appropriation
by AIS. |
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TIA
is a program of DARPA's Information Awareness Office (IAO), its mission
to integrate "innovative information technologies for detecting and
pre-empting foreign terrorist activities against Americans." The
original logo has been discontinued because it had "become a lightning
rod" and was "needlessly diverting |
The
Ambient Information Systems T-Shirt features the original TIA logo, slightly
modified. Notably, the eye is refocused and the motto “Scienta est
potentia” – Knowledge is power – is replaced by “Quis
custodiet ipsos custodes” – WHO IS WATCHING
THE WATCHMEN? Available in different sizes & styles from ambient.bazaar [online shop] |
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time
and attention from critical tasks." The Total Information Awareness
program has now been renamed Terrorism Information Awareness Systems.
DARPA runs numerous other research programs, including FutureMAP (the
now discontinued futures market where traders would have been invited
to gamble on political events) The original TIA logo is described in the Total Information Awareness FAQ : "the eye scans the globe for evidence of terrorist planning and is focused on the part of the world that was the source of the attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon." |