Microsoft CEO: Computers will figure you out

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The next focus of research, Ballmer tells Charlotte audience, is machines that intuit what user wants.

By Andrew Dunn
Posted: Friday, Jun. 19, 2009

In the next 10 years, computers as flexible as a sheet of paper will replace notepads and newspapers, while others will be able to intuit what you're trying to find online, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Friday to a group of Charlotte technology workers.
Ballmer's speech and question-and-answer session kicked off the N.C. Technology Association conference in uptown Charlotte. He discussed topics including health care costs and the future of Microsoft's new search engine, Bing.

In some ways cool, and in others concern.

 

[Apocalypse]

In some ways cool, and in others concern.

Sums life up.

 

[Laila]

In the next 10 years, computers as flexible as a sheet of paper will replace notepads and newspapers, while others will be able to intuit what you're trying to find online, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Friday to a group of Charlotte technology workers.

Was it just me who first thought of Terminator

 

[celticlord]

Computers will "intuit" what someone is attempting to find online?

How? When most people likely can't even intuit that themselves?

 

[WI Crippler]

Great :roll:

Now when I log in, 100 pages of porn are going to pop up every time.

 

[celticlord]

Great :roll:

Now when I log in, 100 pages of porn are going to pop up every time.

Yes, but at least it will be the sort of porn you like.:mrgreen:

 

[WI Crippler]

Yes, but at least it will be the sort of porn you like.:mrgreen:

We're going to need a bigger computer.....

 

[Orion]

In order for them to intuit what you want, they'll have to initially collect data on your online activities.

More reason to not invest in future microsoft operating systems.

 

[danarhea]

Computers are still trying to figure out Internet Explorer, so good luck with THIS. LOL.