> If it was smart/reliable enough it could book appointments, order dinner, plan your weekend based on events people pinged you about.. that kind of thing. The

> If it was smart/reliable enough it could book appointments, order dinner, plan your weekend based on events people pinged you about.. that kind of thing. The way I see it, if I had an ever present human assistant following me around 24/7, I would definitely get some value from being able to offload parts of those tasks. However my gut says that the amount is quite small, since I would still need to direct them to do stuff for me, and confirm everything. Most of the value I've seen from EAs is helping to coordinate competing priorities, and I just don't have that many. On top of that, a lot of the little ways that people get value from assistants (calling up hard to reach restaurants, reminding you to send cards and gifts) lose it's value if EVERYONE has access to an assistant.