{"id":24077,"date":"2011-01-19T16:51:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T16:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/in_new_military_data_overload_can_be_deadly\/"},"modified":"2011-01-19T16:51:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T16:51:12","slug":"in_new_military_data_overload_can_be_deadly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24077","title":{"rendered":"In New Military, Data Overload Can Be Deadly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When military investigators looked into an attack by American helicopters last February that left 23 Afghan civilians dead, they found that the operator of a Predator drone had failed to pass along crucial information about the makeup of a gathering crowd of villagers.<\/p>\n<p>But Air Force and Army officials now say there was also an underlying cause for that mistake: information overload.<\/p>\n<p>At an Air Force base in Nevada, the drone operator and his team struggled to work out what was happening in the village, where a convoy was forming. They had to monitor the drone\u2019s video feeds while participating in dozens of instant-message and radio exchanges with intelligence analysts and troops on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/17\/technology\/17brain.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When military investigators looked into an attack by American helicopters last February that left 23 Afghan civilians dead, they found that the operator of a Predator drone had failed to pass along crucial information about the makeup of a gathering<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=24077\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,143,129,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-defense-national-security-military","category-psychology","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}