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Someday our phones will be so tuned in to our locations and preferences that we'll see maps that show only the places we're really interested in, a la

http://strangemaps.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/newyorker2.JP...



Not just limited to phone technologies. I think there is a larger trend of pandora-like predictive analytics soon to seep into our connected lives.

In Soviet Russia, you don't browse the web. The web browses you!


Hrm, if that's the case, then I guess effectively, you can have machines being the connector that gets people together for events and party plans, since it knows who's where, it should be able to match people together based on the history of places they've been.

Though that doesn't bother, what does bother me if that algorithm got rigged somehow, and someone could engineer and direct the flow of people in physical space and in social space.




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