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Cell Phones Predict the Future
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."
I guess they've stopped being smartphones, and started being smartass phones.
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Great stuff, now lets use that technology to create elevators that can predict the future !
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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."
Course, in my college days, if my cell phone predicted I'd be in the computer lab, 99% of the time it'd be right.
-Teiresias
Perhaps you haven't been following the news for the last several years. Sounds perfectly fundable under the present US administration.
//Information does not want to be free; it wants to breed.
My cell phone is telling me that on thursday I will read this story again.
*Beep* It's been a month since you showered and stepped out of the house! *Beep*
My cell phone told me this yesterday!
because I have been enjoined by this Holy Office to abandon the false opinion which maintains that the Sun is the centre