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> When I turn on my Google Android phone in the morning, the phone will be smart enough to know everything I check every morning. I'll see the weather forecast
by gioele 13y ago
> When I turn on my Google Android phone in the morning, the phone will be smart enough to know everything I check every morning. I'll see the weather forecast first, then my sales numbers, probably headlines on Reddit and HN.
I see this is scary. At the same time this is something we collectively want.
I think the problem here is not what predictive services based on our data are being offered. The problem here is that these services are being offered by a company that has much of our data. _Who_ is doing the computation is worrisome, not the computations themselves.
I would love to be able to do `apt-get install google` on my privately own server and get the same good services while keeping all my data under my roof.
- dragonwriter 13y ago> I think the problem here is not what predictive services based on our data are being offered. The problem here is that these services are being offered by a company that has much of our data. Predictive services using your data wouldn't be much use if they weren't offered by someone with not only much of your data but also big honking scads of other data, including other people's interaction data, both to analyze to find general patterns for prediction, and to actually provide the information you need based on the predictions.
- epsylon 13y ago> I see this is scary. At the same time this is something we collectively want. That's what early adopters want, but for the rest of us...