The addition of location awareness to smartphones via gps sensors is significant;One study indicates that a large number of smartphone users are already utilising LBS services.
The ability of your phone to tell you where the nearest restaurant is (Location Based Services) was discussed as early as ten years ago, in an IBM paper. GPS of course wasnt available then, but the ability to determine your location by knowing the location of the cellphone tower you were nearest was.
But Contextual Computing is another level again – LBS tells us where the restaurant is – but if my smartphone can talk to the restaurants website, finds out that a meal that suits my gluten-free diet is on special today, and places a take-away order for me to pick up when I arrive in 10 minutes, thats a whole new ball game!
Given that LBS took ten years to arrive, how far out is CC?
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