The Net that watches you

At their most sinister networks are seen as fishnets, entangaling, suffocating and all seeing. A network that watches you actively is usually called something else. The Matrix.

Feature – Working the Camera
Feature – Working the Camera: Real-Time Grid-Powered Surveillance

The inside of supercomputer Kentucky ASYmmetric Zero, as captured by a grid-controlled camera. This image is updated about every 45 seconds.
Image courtesy of the University of Kentucky
Two people happen to meet in a hallway. They begin to chat, and end up in deep discussion.
Suddenly, on the wall beside them, projected images appear. Video clips. Sounds. Information directly relevant to their discussion. And all made automatically available, where and when they need it most.
This is the vision for the University of Kentucky’s Ambient Virtual Assistant, a real-time grid application framework for managing grids that combine multiple sensors and output devices.