John Olinda I want my phone to be a pocketable Jarvis. I can hand off information to it to be dealt with intelligently, but without polling distant servers. It can collect lots of information about me, for me. I love cloud-based tech, but sometimes I wish we had veered in a more distributed direction. A direction where tech is as comfortable offline as online.

Mark Dain I wonder how much processing power that requires? It would be ideal if data was kept on our devices and not in the cloud

John Olinda I know it really impressed me some of the things that Google was able to come up with based on data that I shared with it, but it would be awesome if my own devices could do that on a personal scale. More like ambient awareness, for lack of a better phrase?