This is precisely what people in the early-mid 1990s were predicting would happen, with 'intelligent agents' and 'autonomous agents'. Wired was all over that ki

This is precisely what people in the early-mid 1990s were predicting would happen, with 'intelligent agents' and 'autonomous agents'. Wired was all over that kind of stuff, as I recall. http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/Letizia/AIA/AIA.html http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Lieberary/Letizia/AIA/AIA.h... http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue7/search-engines/ http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue7/search-engines/ http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/NextLink/Expert.html http://www-cdr.stanford.edu/NextLink/Expert.html