Thanks for this insightful post (resteemed!), it's really fascinating what these companies can do. Though I think once this becomes common, the companies who are spied on will simply "close their lids", so to say.
A really interesting application for these technologies would be analyzing nature, like oceans, forests, glaciers, or even space. There may be so many things in the big picture which we were not able to see yet!
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Thanks so much for the resteem.
In my research, I was lead to understand that they're doing this already. Glaciers, deforestation, all that. What's really interesting about it for me is the predictive aspect. If you see soil losing fertility and rivers drying up, you can predict a war before it happens. See enough roads being built in a certain direction and you can predict deforestation. Get big enough data about the past and the present, put the right algorithms on it and the future becomes a golden thread that you can follow.
It's almost like in Asimov's Foundation series. :)
Getting there. Turns out humans aren't as unpredictable as we like to think. Throw enough data at the problem and who knows? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
And kudos for the Asimov reference :D scifi fans are surprisingly thin on the ground on Steemit.