This is exciting.
“It may all sound futuristic, at least for near term commercial deployment, but Microsoft Research said it’s running all these applications for real. “This is not simulation, it’s all done with a standard PC, very complex software and machine vision tricks,” Eric Horvitz, principal researcher at Microsoft…”
Source: Microsoft Previews Surreal Future
It’s also exciting to see the other companies doing some really cool things. Intel “has previewed an 80-core processor” and IBM has research technology to “automatically enable mobile devices and networks to track and learn users whereabouts and preferences as they commute between work and home.”
You can get off the freaked out privacy kick and get on the cool technology kick. They’re already thinking about that and working on it. Privacy and personal info is an obvious concern and a huge focus (as stated in the interview article linked above).
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