On Jan 3, 2008 3:21 PM, P Kishor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/3/08, Sean Gillies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, Puneet, I'd been waiting for a summary like that. > > > > Did anybody bring up the topic of compulsory geographic information > > collection? GPS tracking of criminal offenders, the (failed) California > > proposal to mandate GPS for auto mileage tracking, etc? I'm not an > > advocate of either, just curious. > > Rajan Gupta from Los Alamos National Labs brought up a fascinating > example of diagnostic chips that could be embedded in cell phones and > would be able to diagnose, say, bird flu. That way, as people talk in > their phones, and likely cough into it, the chips could diagnose the > presence of H5N1 and relay it back to a monitoring center. Of course, > the "Minority Report"-like nightmarish big-brother aspect of it aside, > this sounded really fascinating to me. Not volunteered at all though > -- more like "co-opted geographic information." >
Urban Atmospheres is an implementation of this concept as well (http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/) Not sure if it's been brought up - but Verner Vinge's "Rainbows End" is a decent novel on this future world of completely sensored world and complexities in analyzing the huge volumes of data to find the small outliers like illnesses. _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
