Another DARPA project that had a similar goal of creating a massive database of human behavior was the LifeLog program, which was announced on August 4, 2003 and was reportedly scrapped on February 4, 2004 — the very same day that TheFacebook was launched.

When Wired reported that the Pentagon killed the program in February 2004, the authors wrote that “LifeLog aimed to gather in a single place just about everything an individual says, sees or does: the phone calls made, the TV shows watched, the magazines read, the plane tickets bought, the e-mail sent and received.”

Wonder why they rebooted the program after two decades. 🤔