Monday, August 13, 2012

Nokia knows where you'll be in 24 hours

http://www.businessinsider.com/nokia-has-come-up-with-an-algorithm-that-knows-where-youll-be-24-hours-from-now-2012-8

Not only does your phone know where you are, but it knows where you are going to be. It may even know why you're going there.

He calls it the "Interdependence and Predictability of Human Mobility and Social Interactions," but the algorithm researcher Mirco Musolesi and his team recently tested in the UK stirs up thoughts reminiscent of Phillip K. Dick's Minority Report, and all the moral trappings that come with it.

Spurred by a Nokia initiative, and the 6,000 Euro prize money, Musolesi started researching a mobility tracking project (using volunteers furnished by Nokia).

Mobility itself, every day routine, is quite predictable. Where Musolesi and his team ran into problems was unpredictable, unscheduled modes of mobility.

No comments:

Post a Comment

If you have a comment regarding the post above, please feel free to leave it here.