What your cell phone knows about you
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The information recorded in cell phones are helping researchers understand how people respond to getting sick, how people make decisions about health and even how ideas spread throughout communities. Alex Pentland of MIT’s Human Dynamics Laboratory and the MIT Media Lab, talks with Here and Now about the information that can be gleaned from cell phones.
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