Human mobility is the basis of how our lives work. In order to meet people, work, or have fun, we need to venture out into the world. It crucial to move from point A to point B. Phone companies are required by law to track the movement of cell phones. With this data, they sell it to companies to track how people move. They analyze this information to determine a person’s predictability.
Someone that keeps to a schedule during the week, for instance, they drive to work in the morning and then only go home after work, tends to stay home on the weekend. Their predictability is calculated from their habits.
Where people live and their proximity to work can determine factors. For instance, those live close to work will have more time to go about their lives while long distance drivers waste a couple hours a day in a predictable pattern. While they have the potential deviate due to distance, they generally don’t.
I’ve heard the term “Humans are creatures of habit” many times. Your cell phone proves it.
Friday, February 19, 2010
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3 comments:
I don't have a cellphone.
What can this mean?
Am I neither predictable, nor unpredictable...
Or: do I even exist?
How are things at work?
You don't have to say.
I don't own a cellphone either. That must mean that people like The Crow and I fly under the corporate radar. Good for us!!
Well done to both of you. I do have a cell phone, but I find myself using it less and less. I realise now that I could live without it quite easily . . . at this moment it is off, and I tend to only use it for traveling, which I have to do plenty of. I wonder just how predictable my movements are, hm . . I live a fairly spontaneous lifestyle ;-)
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