by Tom Simonite, Technology Review
A new personal-assistant app for the iPhone, Cue, offers an alternative to painstakingly compiled to-do lists and electronic calendars filled with information pulled from work and personal e-mail accounts and social networks. The idea is to automatically retrieve crucial information just before you need it. Daniel Gross, who cofounded Cue with Robby Walker, says the app is needed because the number of ways we share information has exploded, making it that much harder to corral everything we need to go about our lives. The average person receives 63,000 words a day through e-mail, social networks, and other accounts, he says. “It’s getting worse and worse over time—human capabilities are not growing at the same pace the information volume is.”
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428321/a-personal-assistant-mines-your-life-to-help-out/
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