More importantly, this suggests a potential direction for UI to take in a wider range of applications. I know Clippy was a dreadful failure, but maybe the tech

More importantly, this suggests a potential direction for UI to take in a wider range of applications. I know Clippy was a dreadful failure, but maybe the tech just wasn't up to it yet. With all the extra cores that are coming on line in modern computers, we are going to have processing cycles to spare, and this would be a way of using that power in a way that would directly benefit the user experience. To give an example, in my flat, my PC is always on and always has a webcam plugged in - I'd pay good money for a program that identified when my flat was getting messy and started to nag me to clean up. Something like that that actually works, I'd be willing to spend 100E on without even thinking about it.