The tech form of productive effort is always looking for the next great advance or breakthrough. Now the latest breakthrough development might be a way to predict the future.

A company called Recorded Future has attracted a remarkable pair of investors Google and the CIA. As eCRM Guide reports, Record Futures technology is designed to hinder customers see patterns and predict whats going to happen in undoubting areas and plot out, what a report by Wired called, “the online essential element” for any given event.

Google NASDAQ GOOG continues to move well across its origins as a search engine and more and more into other uses of knowledge of facts. This week the company made news in both the CRM and analytics markets.

The chiefly interesting news was that Google and the CIAs venture chief arm are both investing in a company that monitors the Web and uses that facts to try to predict the future.

Read the full story at eCRM Guide:

Google Takes each Interest in Analytics, CRM