A Passive Yet Potentially Aggressive Mobile App Strategy

Yes, we know...If youre reading TechCrunch, theres a great chance we all look at our phones too many times during the day, during meetings, during conversations, during dinner, and every other piece of dead time in between. Mobile apps and the connectivity they provide to us induce addictive behaviors. So, as we think about how mobile evolves, two questions have been on my mind: (1) Could information be pushed to us (beyond push notifications) such that I look at my phone less?, and (2) Will there be apps which passively collect data from my phone, while running in the background, that will improve the notifications mentioned above?