But future technologies are pointing in an even more exhaustive, and some would say intrusive, self-monitoring direction.

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Each came equipped with Porsche Stability Management, which maintains stability by continuously monitoring the direction, velocity and acceleration of the car.

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Technology advances in the last few years have replaced older, faster-moving windmills with new, self-monitoring turbines whose 150-foot long blades adjust to wind direction and speed.

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By contrast, and as monitoring technology got more sophisticated, the evidence was going in the other direction, namely, that the more carefully you looked for BPA, the less of it you found.

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Like others on the leading edge in health care, they believe this direction of paying for outcomes rather than individual treatments, and intensive data monitoring to understand what works and which patients are at risk, will become the way of the future regardless of what the Supreme Court decides on the Obama health care law.

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