Hmmm, my call is that all these "black" phones are part of a fad, not a trend. Also if only 1 or 2% of the population has them then the NSA knows who to focus on;-)
Future of Mobile from a Googler in London. Compelling, a bit off, but some good stuff in there and good to know that even Google employees see some of these technologies as attainable.
"Presafe" is a feature that identifies dangers before they are relevant - so Mercedes found one of those intersections that's dangerous and used a projector and camera to make the building/wall "invisible".
eBay for real-world labor. When users, called senders, post a task, they also invisibly declare the maximum amount they'd pay to have it completed. Runners then bid on the task by declaring the minimum amount they would accept.
"MoveOn co-founder Eli Pariser's new book The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You is a thoughtful, often alarming look at the dark side of Internet personalization. Pariser is concerned that invisible "smart" customization of your Internet experience can make you parochial, exploiting your cognitive blind-spots to make you overestimate the importance or prevalence of certain ideas, products and philosophies and underestimate others."