I'm currently reading
Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution by Howard Rheingold. It's a non-fiction title about the social impact of wireless handheld communications, how people can communicate and collaborate like never before thanks to wireless PDAs, smartphones and text messaging devices like the Blackberry.
I just ordered
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins (yes, the father of the Palm Pilot, Handspring Visor and Treo).
As a PDA enthusiast, this work could provide some valuable insight into the direction personal digital assistants are heading:
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With his powerful new theory of how the human brain works, Jeff Hawkins not only explains why today's computers fail to achieve real intelligence, he begins to chart a path for us to finally build a truly intelligent machine. Check out why leading scientists are calling Jeff's book "the most important book in neuroscience, psychology, and artificial intelligence in a generation."
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Sounds like maybe we'll really start to see some truly "smart" devices that can anticipate what we need them to do for us, along the lines of the Apple Newton's
"Intelligent Assistance Architecture".
Brian