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Just last week I read this article entitled “Ask Not for Whom the Cell Phone Tolls: Some Problems with the Notion of Context-Aware Computing”. Here’s one of the scenarios mentioned in the article:

Spying a newspaper rack, Tom pulls his rented car to the side of the road and hops out to grab a paper. The car, recognizing that the door has closed and the engine is running, alertly locks its doors.

Imagine my near-amusement when I received a desperate phone call from a friend on Saturday. She was standing outside her car, and needed me to go fetch an extra set of keys…