“Palantir does not just provide the Pentagon with a machine for global surveillance and the data-efficient fighting of war, it runs Wall Street, too. Palantir is exactly what it says it is: a giant digital eye like Saruman’s seeing stone in The Lord of the Rings.” The CIA and Pentagon have relied on Palantir’s big data-driven predictive technology; and now the Minority Report-esque technology is coming to a neighborhood near you. From The Guardian: Palantir: the special ops tech giant that wields as much real-world power as Google.