🛰️ Palantir & The Authoring of Your Life: From Surveillance to Prediction

You apply for a job and never hear back. You search chest pain at 2 a.m. and get a “tailored” insurance pitch by noon. You’re flagged at the airport because you matched a hidden pattern. That’s not coincidence—it’s authorship: systems that don’t just watch you, they write your future before you live it.

Meet Palantir—the quiet integrator behind government and corporate data stacks (Gotham, Foundry): predictive policing, autonomous targeting, population-level health modeling, logistics optimization. When fragmented databases fuse (SSA, IRS, customs, hospitals, telecoms), prediction becomes policy—and the price of entry is your life’s exhaust.

This film traces the rise of surveillance capitalism and the “tyranny of real time” (Virilio): when speed + compute turn behavior into raw material. From ICE to the NHS, from bank risk to battlefield targeting, the new power isn’t seeing—it’s deciding, invisibly, at machine speed. Centralized data isn’t “access”—it’s control. And when the keys sit with private actors, the line between public interest and private profit dissolves.

What you’ll learn:
• How data orchestration (not just collection) enables silent, scalable behavioral control
• Why predictive models reshape hiring, credit, healthcare, and policing before you appeal
• The stakes of database centralization: from fragmented records to a single executive switch
• Why “efficiency” narratives mask the real objective: domination through prediction

If information is the new currency, you are the balance sheet. The question isn’t “who watches?” anymore. It’s who writes.