"This data is amazingly important from a commercial point of view," Huberman told me in a telephone interview last week.

上周，Hubeman在电话里告诉我，“从商业的角度来看，这些数据是异常重要的”。

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But Asur and Huberman reckon this is just the beginning, and that their technique should be able to predict social outcomes of many kinds.

但阿苏尔和休伯曼认为，这仅仅是个开始，用他们的技术完全可以预测多项社会结果。

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"Do you always plop down on the same spot on the couch, with the same television show on and the same bowl of chips in your hand?" asks Huberman.

Huberman问：“你是不是总是蜷缩在沙发的同一个位置，看同一个电视频道，手里拿着同样一盒薯片？”

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Latching onto the cloud computing trend, Huberman is pushing the concept of a personal cloud.

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Huberman says the economics still does not favor storing large amounts of personal data on the Web.

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Huberman contends that no one ever writes about the downside of cloud storate.

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