The Web Bot Project is an Internet Bot software program that claims to make a prediction the future by using the internet and its inexhaustible resources to come up with yet another set of precognitions, mainly adding up to the Mayan and I Ching predictions of 2012. But are we to believe it? Before we can ever answer that question, there are several things to consider in dealing with this relatively young soothsayer of the 2012 apocalypse – how does it actually predict the future using the internet? Why would the internet be a reliable source of information regarding 2012? And has it predicted other things that did happen, assuaging doubts and increasing its credibility as 2012’s grand soothsayer?

The Web Bot is basically a prediction program created by Clif High and associate George Ure, the “Time Monks”, they call themselves, and its original intention was to make prediction of stock market trends using the internet, using robot “spiders” to search the internet for keywords related to the stock market. What they found out, according to their claims, however, was when they used the bot to search for 300,000 key emotional words, including the text preceding and superseding the keyword, they supposedly created a “snapshot” of the so called “collective unconscious” of internet, and effectively, of humanity.

From then on the Web Bot project was further specialized to search for trends of the “collective unconscious”. However, how they exactly do this search of a bizarre kind, the technology and the algorithm, ultimately, is kept secret. They claim to have predicted the Sept. 11 tragedy of the World Trade Center weeks before it actually happened. The Web Bot is also said to have predicted the anthrax attacks, the Space Shuttle Columbia maritime disaster, the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, and a lot more cataclysms and disasters.

However, what they don’t see is the much larger list of what it did not predict accurately. From a supposed massive earthquake in Vancouver, to a global coastal event in 2009, from a complete US dollar collapse to Israel bombing Iran purportedly after Barack Obama sits as U.S. President – a large number of their claims didn’t really come true. And what does it say should happen in 2012?

First, the specific 2012 prediction is that a major cataclysm, while not actually ending the world, is going to occur on 2012, either because of the reversing of the north and south magnetic poles or a small number of nuclear attacks leading up to a major attack. What’s interesting is that they also have a prediction of what’s going to happen a year after that: in 2013 they find a “data gap” similar to the pre-electronic state of humanity, implicating that a devastating activity has just destroyed the world’s major information systems.

So, are we to really believe what the Web Bot Project is actually saying to us? We cannot be sure, but whatever people think this machine can do, there are simply some things it cannot predict: humanity’s subconscious surely has no power to effect a collision course between the earth and other heavenly bodies, or similar other things.

See, the Web Bot Project is merely a method of collecting data from the internet, and we all know the internet has a lot of false information looming from all over. It cannot possibly filter the truth from the lies and so they can make a more truthful prediction. Ultimately, the Web Bot Project is simply a set of calculated guesses using a computer. As inauthentic sometimes the Internet may seem, so is the Web Bot Project, because it usurps the “collective subconscious” from the Internet; there can be no other defense regarding this prediction robot – feel free to view more articles or browse more 2012 resources.