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What you are describing used to be called "mobile information agents" in the late 90s ;) Sandboxing technology wasn't really quite ready for that at the time t
by janekm 6y ago
What you are describing used to be called "mobile information agents" in the late 90s ;)
Sandboxing technology wasn't really quite ready for that at the time time... (not sure if it really is now, though arguably WASM is closer than JVM was)
https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.544.6649&rep=rep1&type=pdf https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.54...
- HeyLaughingBoy 6y agoI completely forgot about information agent technology. It was supposed to be the Next Really Big Thing but seemed to fizzle out completely once the hype died down. Was it ever used for anything significant?
- janekm 6y agoNothing I’ve come across, though I feel one could make the case that many of the ideas live on in some shape (Web APIs, serverless/lambda, Etherium Solidity, Service oriented architectures...).