The meeting cancellation resets not only my alarm clock but the coffee machine as well.

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Well, what if my calendar could talk to my alarm clock across the Internet?

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The cancelled meeting would trigger my alarm clock being set back an hour, allowing me to sleep a little longer.

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All of that information is fed back to my alarm clock (and coffee machine for that matter) via the Internet.

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Deadlines and all their grim paraphernalia, such as alarm clocks, car services, online or phone reservations of any kind, programming my GPS, setting the hotel's always impossibly complicated alarm clock, and, yes, understanding a voice-mail message.

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This morning, the alarm woke me at 5:30, Central time, or 3:30 by my own West Coast internal clock.

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