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."

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Big deal

[jayhawk88]

Eat Bagle Bites.
Play World of Warcraft.
Jerk off to Slutomax After Dark.

There, I just predicted the Friday and Saturday nights of 75% of Slashdot.

consider the subject

[bongoras]

Remember, the subjects were all MIT people. Here's my prediction:

for (subject):
25% chance: talking about how much linux is better than windows
25% chance: reading slashdot and wondering why that hot chick he met last night wasn't impressed that he's a post-graduate student
25% chance: writing in their blogs about how superior their intellects are
25% chance: modding this comment as -1 troll