Be Afraid
This is off the "official" DARPA site for the Poindexter Project. Check out the last item...mind reading anyone? Do we all get tested for our empathic skills to become the thought police? I'm not really laughing here anymore. On the day this list goes "dark", I think that a cottage in New Zealand might be a good investment. Forever.

IAO Vision: The most serious asymmetric threat facing the United States is terrorism, a threat characterized by collections of people loosely organized in shadowy networks that are difficult to identify and define. IAO plans to develop technology that will allow understanding of the intent of these networks, their plans, and potentially define opportunities for disrupting or eliminating the threats. To effectively and efficiently carry this out, we must promote sharing, collaborating and reasoning to convert nebulous data to knowledge and actionable options. IAO will accomplish this by pursuing the development of technologies, components, and applications to produce a proto-type system. Example technologies include:

Collaboration and sharing over TCP/IP networks across agency boundaries Large, distributed repositories with dynamic schemas that can be changed interactively by users Foreign language machine translation and speech recognition Biometric signatures of humans Real time learning, pattern matching and anomalous pattern detection Entity extraction from natural language text Human network analysis and behavior model building engines Event prediction and capability development model building engines Structured argumentation and evidential reasoning Story telling, change detection, and truth maintenance Business rules sub-systems for access control and process management Biologically inspired algorithms for agent control Other aids for human cognition and human reasoning