Senior Lib Dem Simon Hughes said his party would fully support the matching of IP addresses mentioned in the Queen's Speech, but was not convinced by the need for "the general monitoring of everything" that the original bill proposed.

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So the idea of monitoring the specifics of everything around our globe, which seems to be defying physics by expanding even as it gets smaller, is accepted with about as much alacrity as a midterm.

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The finished product, if ever someone actually concocts one, could be applied across a variety of fields -- everything from pollution monitoring to medicine.

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In-Q-Tel has also invested in GainSpan, a company finding ways to make everything wi-fi-enabled, from refrigerators to health monitoring devices, for richer information on something than just its location.

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Unbeknownst to most sunbaked tourists, the Happiest Place on Earth is an enclosed universe of monitoring systems that continually cull customer surveys and use computer modeling to predict everything from how many people will eat at any one time to passenger loads on the Jungle Cruise boats.

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The need is for multi-skilled, multi-disciplinary teams that can do everything from planning and training, through design and execution, to monitoring and evaluating programs, and can work in the complex overlapping space among all these problems, from the strategic and risk analysis level right down to field execution.

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