Of course the totalitarian story or theme goes back into ancient times.
Various Numbers, words & other things, form peculiar data-patterns of coincidence & synchronicity.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-machine-that-would-predict
Supercomputers can look for patterns not only in science & metaphysical concepts but through art & literature, etc.
Since ancient times, some people have been aware of the Akashic_records. http://www.crystalinks.com/akashicrecords.html
Something like a cosmic running program (OS) where everything is part of an interactive recording & projection of space & time for consciousness to interact with.
http://www.edgarcayce.org/are/spiritualGrowth.aspx?id=2078
This YT account happened to be started on 9-11 in 2007.
https://www.youtube.com/user/edgarcaycetv
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing#Windows_Live_Search 2006-9-11
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2006/sep06/09-11WLFinalVersionsPR.aspx,
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/windows-live-search-replacing-msn-search/3788,
http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2067901/Microsoft-Upgrades-Live-Search-Offerings
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel#History
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorded_Future,
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2010/07/exclusive-google-cia
"Sanborn's ambitious work includes the 9-foot 11-inch-high main sculpture—an S-shaped wave of copper with cut-out letters, anchored by an 11-foot column ofpetrified wood"
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_kryptos
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bueno_de_Mesquita,
http://www.history.co.uk/shows/nostradamus/next-nostradamus.html,
http://www.hogueprophecy.com/2008/11/the-next-nostradamus-history-channel-2
TT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e99vsYHIbsQ