Adam Sadilek, formerly of Microsoft, now a researcher at Google, and John Krumm, an engineer at Microsoft researched how accurately such questions can be answered across a large sample of people. They propose a novel model of long-term human mobility that extracts significant patterns shaping people’s lives, and helps us understand large amounts of data by visualizing the patterns in a meaningful way.
The research shows that it is possible to predict location of a wide variety of hundreds of subjects even years into the future and with high accuracy.
Read more here – https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/jckrumm/Publications%202012/Sadilek-Krumm_Far-Out_AAAI-2012.pdf