This is part 6 of a larger blog post, you can read the introduction here.
Feeding into the transactional database of the world would need to be a vast number of sensors. Well that’s all happening now, buildings, engines, animals you name it large parts of our world are being monitored at various levels.
The trouble is that they’re all in their own data silos with limited interactivity to the outside world. One concept that came from David Bartlett’s presentation was that:
“people are the smartest sensors we have”
Of course these ideas feed into each other and there’s probably someone out there fitting all the pieces together as we speak…. lets hope the appropriate checks and balances are built in from the ground up!
