Good or Bad? Our Phones Will Soon Know More About Us Than Our Significant Others
It's hard to believe -- or maybe, not so -- but smartplanet.com is predicting that, within four years, our smartphones will be smarter than us. Why? The Web site quotes research firm Gartner, which has said that our smartphones, tablets and “phablets” will use "cognizant computing" — the next step in personal cloud computing — by 2017, "rendering them capable of predicting our next move based on what it knows." Would you want your phone to know everything you do? Some now can, just by interrelating your calendar with where you are and who you've spoken to, or texted. “Smartphones are becoming smarter, and will be smarter than you by 2017,” smartplanet.com quotes Carolina Milanesi, research vice president at Gartner. “If there is heavy traffic, it will wake you up early for a meeting with your boss, or simply send an apology if it is a meeting with your colleague. The smartphone will gather contextual information from its calendar, its sensors, the ...