The imaginative range of this new thinking is demonstrated in a 2013 Microsoft patent application updated and republished in 2016 and titled "User Behavior Monitoring on a Computerized Device." With conspicuously thin theory complemented by thick practice, the patented device is designed to monitor user behavior in order to preemptively detect "any deviation from normal or acceptable behavior that is likely to affect the user's mental state. A prediction model corresponding to features of one or more mental states may be compared with features based upon current user behavior."

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