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"It shouldn't have to be this hard!" is a plaintive cry from the technologically challenged -- and they are entirely right. Moreover, there is a lot of money to be made in realizing more of the potential IT offers. "Sentient computing" expresses the concept that instead of having to register ourselves with the machines, the machines will register themselves for us. The result is more intutitive interaction, which for most is a consummation devoutly to be wished.
Yet again, I can also see second- and n-order effects of this which may be much less congenial for many people [just as the wonderful liberation brought on by the cell-phone has also made many people available for work 24/7 with no private time of their own].
Another of the many straws gently wafting in front of what will become, I am sure, a technological hurricane.
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