Smartphones Will be Smarter Than Humans By 2017

Smartphones Will be Smarter Than Humans By 2017, enough to perform tasks as a ‘Secret Digital Agent’

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About the only thing a smartphone of the future may not be able to flaunt is the 00 suffix that is the prerogative of secret agents of MI6. Should it worry the mobile phone makers? Why should it?  Smartphones are most likely to be smarter than 007 in four short years in 2017.

Cloud Computing Makes it Possible

The possibilities are endless. The owners of smartphones will lose their privacy to their phones which will predict their next and the subsequent moves. Or, what they are going to purchase on a shopping trip. Who knows they can even judge what's hiding inside that 40 ft shipping containers used for storage. Why, they may even correctly interpret the owner’s actions. This information, found in the new Gartner report, may not startle too many customers who have witnessed the incredible advances science has made.  This is labeled as the next step that personal cloud computing has taken.

What a Smartphone can do

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Unless a smartphone owner is jealous of his own phone being smarter than him, he can easily slip into the role of a proud owner of such a device. The research vice president at Gartner, Carolina Milanesi, has emphasized this point on Tuesday at its symposium/ITxpo 2013 in progress in Barcelona.

She says that your phone will determine the volume of traffic on the roads that you are going to take in order to meet your boss and wake you up early. If it is a friend or colleague, an apology will be dispatched to him. The phone will take parameters like its calendar, personal data, location of the owner and its sensors into consideration to arrive at a logical answer to many a question.

The Owner’s Decision

Is it all that necessary for someone to change over to smartphone from his mobile phone? A mobile phone has cameras, sensors and intelligence gathering based on location, all simple actions. A smartphone goes several steps further to connect the above said features to several sophisticated functions which go a long way in improving the owner’s experience with it. The advanced technology and the apps enable it to do this.

The initial Tasks

However, it is not going to be an overnight development. That explains the time frame of 4 years mentioned at the outset. The very first tasks will include mundane activities like sending birthday or anniversary greetings, putting together a to-do list, making an appointment with your physician or replying to e-mails.  It is for the consumers to try new apps once they gain confidence in their smartphones. Aptly named ‘The Era of Cognizant Computing”,   it will dawn when the consumers choose to install more and more apps that will encompass a majority of their daily activities.

Cognizant Computing

It is not all going to be a smooth passage for smartphones to become “secret digital agents” for, after all, they could only reflect on the appropriate action based on what the owner has fed into them. The cognizant computing will comprise of storing digital assets in sync with contexts, identifying the locations of visit in virtual or real world, understanding the wants and moods of the owner and finally act according to the explicit rules in place.