Cell Phones Predict the Future

Posted by timothy on Monday July 25, 2005 @06:37AM from the yes-they-do-no-they-don't dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wired News reports that cell phones were used in a recent project at MIT to both document and predict the lives of 100 MIT faculty and staff members. During the Reality Mining Project at MIT, Researcher Nathan Eagle logged 350,000 hours of data over nine months about the location, proximity, activity and communication of volunteers through cell phones carried by the participants. From the article, "Given enough data, Eagle's algorithms were able to predict what people -- especially professors and Media Lab employees -- would do next and be right up to 85 percent of the time."

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Re:It's not that deep by d34thm0nk3y · 2005-07-25 07:29 · Score: 0, Flamebait

I don't think it has any negative impact on my life if people know what I'm doing as long as I can still do whatever I want. Of course, dishonest people might think otherwise. Of course a criminal would want some privacy, or someone who is lying to his wife.

Ah yes, the classic "you have nothing to hide if you are doing nothing wrong" defense.

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