Gist of all knowledge

Just went through this peice here:
http://blogs.reuters.com/bernddebusmann/2011/04/01/u-s-intelligence-and-the-wisdom-of-crowds/

U.S. intelligence and the wisdom of crowds


After a string of world-shaking events America’s spies failed to predict, most recently the turmoil sweeping the Arab world, a vast project is taking shape to improve forecasting. It involves thousands of volunteers and the wisdom of crowds.
It’s officially known as the Forecasting World Events Project and is sponsored by the Intelligence Advanced Research Activity (IARPA), a little-known agency run by a woman, Lisa Porter, who is occasionally described as America’s answer to the fictional Agent Q who designs cutting edge gadgets for James Bond. Much of IARPA’s work is classified, as is its budget. But the forecasting project is not classified. Invitations to participate are now on the Internet.
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Reminds me of this:

There was that king, the ancient legend goes, who gathered knowledge from around the world. After several years he managed to compile bullockloads of data about each and every aspect of human life. But he wanted the shorten the data, since he was too lazy to read so much. So the cycle of shortening began, with the king disapproving each new version and asking for an even shorter one. After several months, the king was finally satisfied

The final version was 3 sentences. "Men were born. They lived. Then they died"

There, did I just save US treasury trillions of dollars?