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LANGUAGE, EMOTION AND FORECASTING THE FUTURE LANGUAGE, EMOTION AND FORECASTING FUTURE THE The sampling of conversations and data-sets over the Internet using special software "spiders" has enabled the collective psyche and emotions to be tapped and key events in our future to be forecast. ollowing is the edited transcript of a telephone interview with Clif High from Half Past Human (see http://halfpasthuman.com). It was conducted by the Project Camelot team on 26 September 2008. We recommend that you read the complete transcript at http://projectcamelot.org/clif_high_half_past_human_26_sept_2008.html. - Editor Kerry Cassidy (KC): This is Kerry Cassidy and Bill Ryan of Project Camelot, and we're talking with Clif High from Half Past Human. We want to talk to you about your website and your research, and some of the events you're expecting to occur in the near future. I guess the most interesting way to start would be to explain a little bit about your technique. Clif High (CH): In 1994, I came across this idea that I called The Language Model for Storing Data while working for some of the largest software companies on the planet. Over time, I wrote some software to support the idea, in an attempt to mine the Internet for emotions around the idea of stocks and bonds— with the idea that, if I knew how people felt about them, I could predict what their reaction would be to developing news ahead of their being able to make that actual reaction themselves, with the idea that this could be sold as a profit-making kind of a venture. Then, in 1997, I came across something that totally flipped my mind about this whole idea, in the sense that I went looking for Stanford University Network, a stock at the time, and noticed that there were some really interesting things going on in the language I was picking up. From 1997 to 2001, I deduced some of the following principles. All people are psychic. Most don't know it. Even if you do know it, it does not impact on the next statement I'm going to make, which is that all humans leak out these psychic impressions in the language that they choose to use in ordinary conversation. That was my basic premise to begin with. My working theory from that point was that if one could sample enough of the conversations going on around the planet and sift for the nuance between why one word might be chosen in an ordinary conversation as opposed to another word for the same conversation that basically you'd had a week ago, then one could determine what is moving us, if you will, at an unconscious level and be able to make some forecasts from that in a very interesting way. Sort of an extension, if you will, of my work, of the focus of it in 1997, which was commercial. Make sense? KC: Yes. Wonderful. CH: So, basically, at that point I'm assuming that all these psychics are out there. I had educated myself on language and how linguistics works and how the human brain works, all this kind of thing. Along the way I wrote this little piece of software that allowed me to read off the computer screen at up to 2,000 words per minute, so I was able to suck down vast quantities of text over those Interview with Clif High by Kerry Cassidy and Bill Ryan for Project Camelot © 2008 Email: support@projectcamelot.org Website: http://projectcamelot.org/ Interview with Clif High NEXUS ¢ 47 DECEMBER 2008 — JANUARY 2009 www.nexusmagazine.com