General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can't be solved. It's not that we're not good at it; it's the problems cannot be solved because we're not going to agree about these deep questions of how we organize.
Our intention and aspiration is to continue building out thematic information about every subject - basemaps, imagery, demographics, landscape data, etc. - so anyone can use it to access thousands of authoritative maps.
Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
We never, ever in the history of mankind have had access to so much information so quickly and so easily.
Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.
The revelation that the National Security Agency has been secretly amassing data on countless law-abiding American citizens has aroused great concern about the potential threat such an effort poses to liberty.
Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.
The more up-to-date the information, the more valuable it is.
How inscrutable and incomprehensible are the hidden works of Nature!
What I care about is maximum information.
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