The brave new world of technology will include devices that change our whole relationship to them and, perhaps, to the world around us. That’s according to Intel CTO Justin Rattner, who outlined the future of “context-sensitive” computing at his keynote address to IDF this week. The new class of context-aware gadgets will gather information on their users through what Rattner called both “hard” and “soft” sensors. This data will be collated and used to offer suggestions to users based on what the device understands to be their personal needs.
