The outernet's potential for saving life but also for more government contol

The outernet is the term giving to the things in the real world that are
recorded electronically. This will grow evermore with the advancement of
pervasive computing and Articulated Naturality devices like the Ouidoo.

For example, phones may be able to detect psychosis using GSR
technology. They may also be able to detect flashes of anger. People who
are at risk of murder because of temper regulation problems may be able
to be monitored. Their location can be tracked and their mental state
measured.

But it could also lead to more control by totalitarian governments.
People who are political activists may already be monitored in countries
with less freedom than in the UK. People who are dissidents may be
tracked easier using mobile phone technology.

The problem is the amount of data. Even with the increase in processing
power predicted by Moore's Law and the development of distributed
computing there's still not enough to cope with the potential explosion
in outernet data. There may be a new version of Moore's Law to predict
this exponential growth.

Distributed computing like the Seti@Home project has created one of the
world's most powerful supercomputers from the spare processing power of
the huge community of people willing to share their desktop processing
power as part of the project. This may not be suitable for a system that
needs to react quickly because the packets take time to return. The
distrivuted computing technology that empowers Google is more suitable
where several basic desktop PCs are networked together and provide the
power and speed for searching billions of web pages but there will need
to be significant advances in technology beyond Moore's Law to allow
these systems to cope with the massive new dataset from the outernet.
Many of the algorithms required may have already been developed by the
military and intelligence services however these are not available to
the public nor commercial sector.