[Geowanking] goodchild VGI paper

[Andrew Turner]

On Jan 3, 2008 3:21 PM, P Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/3/08, Sean Gillies <sgillies at frii.com> 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.