Is this IBM email app creepy or just really efficient? | IT World Canada News

"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't let you postpone that meeting..."

"In the future, IBM Verse users will even have the option to embed a Watson feature into their collaboration environment, enabling users to query IBM’s artificial intelligent supercomputer system on almost any topic “and receive a direct reply with answers ranked by degree of confidence.”

It’s almost like having a HAL 9000 in your PC, but actually Big Blue just hopes IBM Verse, with the help of cloud computing and analytics, will someday replace Outlook, Microsoft Corp’s personal information manager that has been handling the email, contacts, calendar, tasks and note taking duties in millions of computers since the late 1990s."

Is this IBM email app creepy or just really efficient? | IT World Canada News