>"Imagine having an entire fleet of sensors all over the world gathering data all the time. Traffic data, weather data, etc." What you've described is already,

>"Imagine having an entire fleet of sensors all over the world gathering data all the time. Traffic data, weather data, etc." What you've described is already, in part, reality. Android phones already gather traffic data for Google Maps. http://www.theconnectivist.com/2013/07/how-google-tracks-traffic/ http://www.theconnectivist.com/2013/07/how-google-tracks-tra...