Nina vs The World

Lately everyone and their grandma is in uproar about the privacy of smart phones and the risk of their privacy being well, not so private. I mean, how can it be that a phone that is pretty much a computer and tells them where the closest Mickey Dees is can also track where they go every day? Gasp! Come on people. At least try using that atrocious thing on your shoulders for more than just wearing ridiculous oversized baseball caps. If a phone has GPS capability, which nowadays, most do, Iphone or not, don't you think other people can access that GPS remotely? After all, GPS does stand for Global Positioning System . If we have the capability of tracking a satellite outside the earth and take 10 megapixel pictures of a grain of rice in Japan, do you really think it's that difficult to tap your run of the mill soccer mom's Ifake clustered with hundreds of pictures of her dirt stricken kids? Or monitor the stores your teenage drama queen frequents? I said it before. I'll...

The future of technology is here. With style, with finesse, and playing Jeopardy. It's WATSON, the new Supercomputer! What's the big buzz about that, you may ask? Well, Watson, if it reaches and surpasses its creators' expectations, will be the machine that revolutionizes life as we live it- in all fields from Game Shows to the Operating Room. ( Watch a Video about Watson ) In fact, it will be a lot like Computer from Hitchhiker's Guide,(see fig. 1A)  the depressive, tv-watching, enormous machine that when asked what the answer was to "Life, the Universe, and Everything" replied the smug.. "42." Fig. 1 A-This Smart computer even had a british accent So, original idea, IBM? I think not. Besides, Computer even has propped up arms that personifies its appearance. However, WATSON is already making news with its fast response to questions to topics as broad as physics, movies, and nobel laureates. So the computer can answer trivia questions in t...